Congratulations to Lisa Hecht for winning the a Distinguished Contribution award in the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology’s (SSCP) 2014 poster competition at the recent Association for Psychological Science convention in San Francisco.
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Hecht Presents at APS
Congratulations to Lisa Hecht, a third year clinical neuropsychology student, for her poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science’s 26th Annual Convention in San Francisco.
Hecht, L. K., & Latzman, R. D. Factors of trait impulsivity exhibit specific associations with subtypes of aggression.
Chimps and Humans Have Similar Personality Traits
Chimps and Humans Have Similar Personality Traits
Elizabeth Palermo, Live Science Contributor
| May 10, 2014 07:28am ET
Ever heard of a conscientious chimp? An extroverted ape? New research suggests that chimpanzees, man’s closest living relatives, have personality traits quite similar to their human cousins.
The study, conducted by researchers at Georgia State University, found that chimpanzees not only possess many of the same personality traits as humans — from agreeableness to extroversion — these traits are structured almost identically in both humans and chimps.
See full article here.
Les chimpanzés nous ressemblent-ils encore plus que prévu ?
Les chimpanzés nous ressemblent-ils encore plus que prévu ?
Par Nicolas Revoy | mercredi 7 mai 2014
ZOOLOGIE
Une étude américaine révèle que les cinq grands traits de personnalité des chimpanzés correspondent de façon troublante aux cinq traits centraux de personnalité du Big Five, un modèle utilisé par les psychologues pour décrire la personnalité humaine.
Full story here.
Chimpanzee Personality paper in dailymail.co.uk
Smarter than the average ape: Researchers find Chimpanzees really DO have distinct personalities almost identical to humans
- Fundamental personality trait for chimpanzees is dominance
- Team identified five personality factors that combine differently in each individual chimpanzee: conscientiousness, dominance, extraversion, agreeableness and intellect
Chimpanzees Show Similar Personality Traits to Humans
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Chimpanzees Show Similar Personality Traits to Humans
Date:May 6, 2014
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Georgia State University
Summary:
Chimpanzees have almost the same personality traits as humans, and they are structured almost identically, according to new work. The research also shows some of those traits have a neurobiological basis, and that those traits vary according to the biological sex of the individual chimpanzee.
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Chimpanzees Show Similar Personality Traits to Humans, Research Team Finds
Chimpanzees have almost the same personality traits as humans, and they are structured almost identically, according to new work led by researchers at Georgia State University.
Read more here.
Shishido Successfully Defends MA Thesis
April, 2014
Yuri Shishido, a clinical neuropsychology graduate student, successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “The Contribution of Temperament and Depressive Symptoms as Pathways to Informant Discrepancies on Parenting Practices.”