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Comparative Differential 
and Personality Psychology

Presentations 

Conference talks

Uher, J. (2011). Positionsreferat "Die Rolle des Verhaltens in der „Persönlichkeit" [The role of behaviour in "personality"]. 11th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Saarbrücken, Germany. 26-28 September 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "Research on individual behavioural phenotypes requires suitable methods. Why behavioural syndromes are not analogues of personality". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "A nonlexical taxonomic approach to individual differences in humans and nonhuman animals". Symposium "The study of individual differences in animals - recent developments". Convenors: Jana Uher & Björn Forkman. Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), London, United Kingdom. 25-28 July, 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "Research on personality differences in primates requires clear concepts and suitable methods". 12th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatology (GfP). Utrecht, The Netherlands. 30 March-1 April 2011. 

Uher, J. (2010). "David Greybeard, Fifi, and Gilka - New behaviour based research approaches confirm Jane Goodall’s early observations that each chimpanzee has a unique personality". Gombe 50 - In celebration of 50 years of primatological research at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, and looking to the future. Winter Meeting 2010 of the Primatological Society of Great Britain (PSGB), Zoological Society of London. London, United Kingdom. 08-09 December 2010. 

Uher, J. (2010). Positionsreferat "Potentiale artvergleichender Forschungsperspektiven für die Psychologie" [Species-comparative research perspectives - Potentials for psychology]. 47th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Bremen, Germany. 26-30 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "Vergleichende Psychologie - Neue Implikationen für die Humanforschung [Comparative psychology - new implications for research in humans]". Symposium "Comparative Psychology - New Implications for research in humans". Convenors: Jana Uher & Katja Liebal. 47th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Bremen, Germany. 26-30 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "Meta-theoretical and methodological foundations of primate personality research – An overview". Symposium "How to Study Personality Differences in Primates". Convenors: Jana Uher & Alex Weiss. XXIII. Congress of the International Primatological Society. Kyoto, Japan, 12-18 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). „On the role of personality in inter-specific bonding“. Invited speaker. Workshop “Beyond Coexistence: Workshop on the biosynergy of humans and other primates – exploring our bonds in research, conservation, care-giving, and education.” Convenors: Anthony Rose, Auguste Vitale, & Augustin Fuentes. XXIII. Congress of the International Primatological Society. Kyoto, Japan, 12-18 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). Methodological approaches in differential and personality research: New insights from a cross-species comparative perspective". Invited Symposium "Cross-species Perspectives on Differential and Personality Research". Convenors: Jana Uher & Mark James Adams. 15th European Conference on Personality (ECP15). Brno, Czech Republic. 20-24 July 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "The advocatus diaboli on animal personalities and behavioural syndromes as analogues of human personality". Invited participant. Symposium "The emergence of personality in animals". Convenors: Fritz Trillmich & Robyn Hudson. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF). Bielefeld, Germany. 17-19 May 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "What is personality and how can we study it in primates?". Spring Meeting 2010 of the Primatological Society of Great Britain (PSGB). Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. 07-08 April 2010. 

Uher, J. (2010). "Sophisticated evolutionary psychology requires comparative approaches". 11th Annual meeting of the MVE-Liste (Menschliches Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive [Human behavior from evolutionary perspective]). Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany. 22-24 March 2010.

Uher, J. (2009). Positionsreferat "Methodische Zugänge in der Differentiellen und Persönlichkeitspsychologie: Neue Erkenntnisse aus artvergleichender Perspektive" [Methodological Approaches in Differential and Personality Psychology: New Insights from a Cross-species Perspective]. 10th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics. Koblenz-Landau, Germany. 28-30 September 2009.

Uher, J. (2009). "Individual-/person-oriented approaches in primate personality research". 9th biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Methods and Evaluation. Bielefeld, Germany. 10-12 September 2009. 

Uher, J. (2009). "Personality research: Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the behaviour and mind of the individual". 3rd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology. Zürich, Switzerland. 12-15 August 2009. Folia Primatologia, 80:147.

Uher, J. (2008). "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods". Symposium "How do we know that primate personality is real and useful?". Invited contribution. Convenors: Alex Weiss & Martina Konecna. XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society IPS 2008. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. 03-08 August 2008.

Uher, J. (2008). "Comparative personality research". Invited Symposium "Multidisciplinary advances in animal personality research".  Convenors: Kees van Oers & Jana Uher. 14th European Conference on Personality (ECP14). Tartu, Estonia. 16-20 July 2008.

Uher, J. (2006). "Methods of measuring personality differences in the behaviour of Great Apes" III. Interdisciplinary Symposium "Methods of Behavioural Research". Munich, Germany. 10 November 2006. 

Conference abstracts and posters

Uher, J. & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Social relationships from an evolutionary and comparative perspective: The role of personality and kinship in dyadic relationships in nonhuman primates". pairfam Interdisciplinary International Conference Partnerhips Relations in Context, Munic, Germany. 21-23 September 2011.

Werner, C. S., Uher, J., & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Persönlichkeitsunterschiede bei Javaneraffen (Macaca fascicularis): Faktorstruktur, Typologie und 1-Jahres-Stabilitäten " [Personality differences in java monkeys (Macaca fascicularis): Factor structure, typology, and 1-year-stabilities"]. 11th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Saarbrücken, Germany. 26-28 September 2011.

Uher, J.; Werner, C. S., & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Personality Differences in Crab-eating Macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Relations to Age, Sex, and Rank-Order". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Büchner, M., Pfadenhauer, A., & Uher, J. (2011). "Effects of environmental and food enrichment on activity patterns and social structures in captive toque macaques (Macaca sinica)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Pfadenhauer, A., Büchner, M., & Uher, J. (2011). "Effects of environmental, mobile, and food enrichment on the behaviour of a group of Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at Tierheim Berlin". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Stärk, J. & Uher, J. (2011). "Social network analysis of groups of captive Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) - The silverback as a mediator". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Dahle, F. & Uher, J. (2011). "The Influence of personality differences on dyadic relationships in captive Common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Bickenbach, A. & Uher, J. (2011). "The impact of male dominant behavior on female hierarchy during the introduction of a new silverback to a captive group of female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Just, C. & Uher, J. (2011). "Social stress during the introduction of a new silverback leader into an established group of females and youngsters". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Uher, J. (2009). "The individual in animal behavioural sciences – Implications from a new research discipline for behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology, animal welfare and conservation". 7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 21-24 September 2009.

 

Invited talks 

"Theoretical and methodological analogies from cross-cultural to cross-species comparisons of personality differences". Department of Culture and Development, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Osnabrück, 09 December 2011.

"Personality in apes and other primates. How to conceptualise and measure individual behavioural phenotypes". Department of Primatology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 15 November 2011.

"Measuring individual behavioural phenotypes. Why behavioural syndromes are not analogues of personality." Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Rome, Italy, 11 July 2011. 

"Conceptualising personality as individual behavioural phenotypes". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 5 July 2011.

"Severe auto-aggressive behaviour disorders in Rhesus macaques - A case study". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 24 May 2011.

"Personality differences in capuchin monkeys". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 10 May 2011.

"Individual-specific patterns in behaviour and mind in humans and other animals". Colloquium Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 19 January 2010.

"Comparative Personality Research - Relevance to Cognitive Primatology". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 25 November 2008.

"Comparative Personality Research and its Relevance for Animal Welfare". Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Rome, Italy, 24 November 2008. 

"Methods and approaches in comparative personality research exemplified in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychologial Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany, 03 July 2008. 

"Methods and approaches of personality assessment in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychological Institute, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany, 22 January 2008. 

"Personality in the Great Apes - Methods and approaches" Colloquium of the Department of Personality Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 31 January 2006.