Effects of social conditions during early development on stress response and personality traits in great tits (Parus major)

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 592-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Naguib ◽  
Cornelia Flörcke ◽  
Kees van Oers
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Parus Major ◽  
Social Conditions

The role of personality traits in the stress response of psychotherapist trainees

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Sarah Schumacher ◽  
Thomas Fydrich ◽  
Andreas Ströhle
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Personality Traits

scholarly journals Personality is associated with dominance in a social feeding context in the great tit

Behaviour ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 156 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1419-1434
Author(s):  
Nehafta Bibi ◽  
Yusheng Wei ◽  
Hongwei Xu ◽  
Jingnan Liang ◽  
Ijaz Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Parus Major ◽  
Novel Object ◽  
Novel Environment ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Behavioural Types ◽  
Fitness Consequence ◽  
Feeding Context

Abstract Despite the growing interest in consistent individual differences in behaviour (animal personality), the influence of social context on different behavioural types remains poorly understood. The suite of correlated behaviours within and across contexts is called behavioural syndromes. Most personality studies have investigated consistent individual behavioural types and their consequences in a asocial context, however few studies have considered the influence of social context on individual behaviour. In addition, the evolutionary and ecological consequences of personality differences in social context remain unknown. In the present study, we confirm individual personality in Great tits (Parus major) using room exploration and neophobia tests. As a result of these two tests, repeatability and correlational structure of two personality traits were investigated. Additionally we assessed the extent to which personality influences dominance in a social feeding context. Great tits remained consistent in their personality traits (exploration and neophobia). Individuals who explored a novel environment faster also approached a novel object faster, while those who spent more time exploring a novel environment were also slower to approach a novel object. In a social feeding context personality was linked to dominance: with proactive individuals being more likely to be dominant. Our result provides evidence of the importance of social context in a wild population of birds and may have fitness consequence, both for focal individuals and their conspecifics.

scholarly journals Ontogenesis of the HPI axis and molecular regulation of the cortisol stress response during early development in Dicentrarchus labrax.

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tsalafouta ◽  
N. Papandroulakis ◽  
M. Gorissen ◽  
P. Katharios ◽  
G. Flik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Dicentrarchus Labrax ◽  
Molecular Regulation ◽  
Hpi Axis

scholarly journals “The stressed bird in the hand”: Influence of sampling design on the physiological stress response in a free-living songbird

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaus Huber ◽  
Katharina Mahr ◽  
Zsófia Tóth ◽  
Endre Z. Szarka ◽  
Yusuf Ulaş Çınar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Sampling Design ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Parus Major ◽  
Blood Sampling ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Coping Capacity ◽  
Handling Stress ◽  
Physiological Stress Response

AbstractDespite the widely used application of standardized capture-handling protocols to collect blood and assess the physiological stress response, the effect of the actual sampling design (e.g. timing and the number of blood samples) often differs between studies, and the potential implications for the measured physiological endpoints remain understudied. We, therefore, experimentally tested the effects of repeated handling and multiple blood sampling on the stress response in wintering free-living great tits (Parus major). We modified a well-established sampling protocol of avian studies by adding either an additional blood sample or a “sham-manipulation” (i.e. handling associated with the blood sampling procedure without venepuncture), to disentangle the effects of handling stress and blood loss. We combined three different stress metrics along the endocrine-immune interface to investigate the acute short-term stress response: total corticosterone levels (CORT), the heterophil/lymphocyte ratio (H:L), and the Leukocyte Coping Capacity (LCC). Our study provided three key results: i) no relationship between CORT-levels, LCC and H:L, confirming that these three parameters represent different physiological endpoints within the stress response; ii) contrasting dynamics in response to stress by the measured parameters and iii) no difference in stress levels 30 minutes after capture due to one additional blood sampling or handling event. By optimising the sampling design, our results provide implications for animal welfare and planning experimental procedures on stress physiology in passerine species.Summary StatementWhen testing the short-term stress response in free living passerines, both – the scientist and the bird may be better off with a 15-minute stress protocol.

The Neurobiology of Attachment and Mentalizing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Luyten ◽  
Peter Fonagy
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Stress Regulation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter addresses the neurobiology of attachment and mentalizing from a developmental psychopathology perspective. It defines attachment, considers its key role in the modulation of the stress response, and describes the general neurobiological process by which this occurs. The chapter then considers the neurobiology of attachment and proceeds to discuss the neurobiological underpinning of mentalizing in relation to attachment and stress regulation. It also focuses on the early development of both capacities in relation to stress regulation and discusses the relationship to the development of psychopathology and personality disorder in particular across the lifespan, with a focus on early childhood and adolescence.

Geographic Variation in Behavior of a Primate Taxon: Stress Responses as a Proximate Mechanism in the Evolution of Social Behavior

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Boinski
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Inclusive Fitness ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Proximate Mechanism

Temperament is a complex behavioral trait that describes characteristic patterns of response to environmental, particularly social, conditions and perturbations. Disparities in the tendency to approach or avoid novelty or readiness to engage in aggressive interactions have been documented in comparisons between species (Christian 1970), subspecies (Gonzalez et al. 1981), populations within species (Champoux et al. 1994), inbred lines of laboratory animals (Scott and Fuller 1965), domesticated versus wild populations (Price 1984), and individuals within a species (Benus et al. 1992). Differences in physiological stress response systems (Selye 1937) are commonly identified as an important proximate mechanism underlying these temperament differences (Huntingford and Turner 1987, Kagan et al. 1988). Social systems of animals are perceived as emerging from relationships between individuals (Hinde 1983). Individual interactions, in turn, are hypothesized to reflect individual behavioral strategies which maximize inclusive fitness (Silk 1987). Selection on a physiological system, which can dramatically affect the pattern and outcomes of individual interactions, could produce evolutionary change in social organization and social behavior. Many workers explicitly suggest that temperament differences among primate species are adaptive in many instances, yet admit that the specific ecological and social selection pressures to which the neuroendocrine system is responding are often unclear (Thierry 1985, Clarke et al. 1988, Richard et al. 1989). Species-level comparisons have not offered many testable comparative models, probably because of confounding effects such as large phylogentic distances or uncertain phylogeny, inadequate knowledge of ecological and social conditions in the wild, drift, and convergent evolution. In short, little progress has been made toward understanding the evolution of stress-response patterns in primates. In this chapter I suggest that comparisons of geographically and genetically separated primate populations or subspecies may be an alternative and more successful approach to addressing the evolution of stress responses and the disparate social behaviors that result. Population and geographic comparisons are likely to be profitable for three reasons: (1) comparisons are less likely to be confounded by phylogenetic disparities (Arnold 1992), (2) the factors imposing different selective regimes among localities can perhaps be more readily identified, (3) hypothesis testing may be facilitated because populations suitable for testing a model will be easier to identify than new species.

scholarly journals Genome Stress Response in Early Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Marzluff ◽  
Robert J. Duronio
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Early Development
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