Dr. Jana Uher       

 

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Comparative Differential 
and Personality Psychology

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My ResearcherID is B-8253-2009

Comparative differential and personality psychology

Uher, J. (2011a). Individual behavioral phenotypes: An integrative meta-theoretical framework. Why 'behavioral syndromes' are not analogues of 'personality'. Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 521–548. DOI: 10.1002/dev.20544 [abstract

Uher, J. (2011b). Personality in nonhuman primates: What can we learn from human personality psychology? In A. Weiss, J. King, & L. Murray (Eds.). Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates (pp. 41-76). New York, NY: Springer. [pdfDOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0176-6_3 [abstract]

Uher, J. (2008a). Comparative personality research: Methodological approaches (Target article). European Journal of Personality, 22, 427-455. [pdf] DOI: 10.1002/per.680

Uher, J. (2008b). Three methodological core issues of comparative personality research. European Journal of Personality, 22, 475-496. [pdf]  DOI: 10.1002/per.688

Uher, J. & Asendorpf, J.B. (2008). Personality assessment in the Great Apes: Comparing ecologically valid behavior measures, behavior ratings, and adjective ratings. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 821-838[abstract] DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.10.004

Uher, J., Asendorpf, J.B., & Call, J. (2008). Personality in the behaviour of great apes: Temporal stability, cross-situational consistency and coherence in response. Animal Behaviour, 75, 99-112. [pdf] DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.018

Behavioural inhibition

Uher, J. & Call, J. (2008). How the Great Apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed reward contingency task II: Transfer to new quantities, long-term retention, and the impact of quantity ratios. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 204-212. [pdf] DOI

Vlamings, P.H.J.M., Uher, J., & Call, J. (2006). How the Great Apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed contingency task: The effects of food quantity and food visibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 60-70. [pdf] DOI

Human cognition

Uher, J. & Beyer, M.L. (2004). Thinking in implications: The impact of structural and content variation on the correct recognition of conditional conclusions [in German]. In: B. Krause & P. Metzler (Eds.). ZeE-Publikationen. Reihe empirische Evaluationsmethoden. Bd. 8. (pp. 39-55). Berlin: ZeE Verlag. [pdf]

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Publicity in the public media (selection)

Tiere haben Charakter, Sächsische Zeitung, 01.11.2011
Draufgänger und Angsthasen, Wiener Zeitung, 22./23.10.2011
Persönlichkeit von Tieren: Von Draufgängern und Angsthasen, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 21.10.2011
Von Draufgängern und Angsthasen, Hamburger Abendblatt, Wissen, 18.10.2011
Affen haben Charakter! Radio1 Die Profis,15.10.2011  [pdf, wmv 4 MB]
Liebe, Streit und Rangeleien, Berliner Tierfreund, Ausgabe 03/2011 [pdf]
Auch Affen haben Charakter, Berliner Zeitung, 11.10.2011 [pdf]
Auch Affen haben Charakter, Frankfurter Rundschau, 11.10.2011
Affen mit Charakter. Die Umwelt verlangt von Tieren Persönlichkeit. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Magazin, 08.10.2011
Tierische Persönlichkeiten, Tagesspiegel, 19.02.2011 [pdf]
Interview in Braincast, SciLogs "Individualität bei Tieren", 09.10.2010 [wmv, 4MB]
Interview in Gehirn & Geist "Jeder Gorilla ist einzigartig" (German counterpart of the Scientific American - Mind), Nr. 10/ 2010 [pdf]
Blogspots "Tiere mit Persönlichkeit", 13.09.2010 [pdf]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26.05.2010 
Tygodnik Wprost, Polish magazine, 19.05.2008 [pdf]
Nano, 3Sat, 30.05.2005 [pdf]
Wieso Weshalb Warum, SWR, 28.04.2005 [pdf]
Live studio guest, Mittagsmagazin, MDR, 15.01.2004