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Fish Personality: Meta-Theoretical Issues, Personality Dimensions, and Applications to Neuroscience and Psychopathology

Version 1 : Received: 22 April 2023 / Approved: 23 April 2023 / Online: 23 April 2023 (04:17:20 CEST)

How to cite: Luchiari, A. C.; Maximino, C. Fish Personality: Meta-Theoretical Issues, Personality Dimensions, and Applications to Neuroscience and Psychopathology. Preprints 2023, 2023040762. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0762.v1 Luchiari, A. C.; Maximino, C. Fish Personality: Meta-Theoretical Issues, Personality Dimensions, and Applications to Neuroscience and Psychopathology. Preprints 2023, 2023040762. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0762.v1

Abstract

While the field of personality neuroscience has extensively focused on humans and, in a few cases, primates and rodents, a wide range of research on fish personality has emerged in the last decades. This research is focused mainly on the ecological and evolutionary causes of individual differences, but also aimed less extensively at proximal mechanisms (e.g., neurochemistry or genetics). We argue that, if consistent and intentional work is made to solve some of the meta-theoretical issues of personality research both on fish and mammals, fish personality research can lead to important advances in personality neuroscience as a whole. The five dimensions of personality in fish (shyness-boldness, exploration-avoidance, activity, aggressiveness, and sociability) need to be translated into models that explicitly recognize the impacts of personality in psychopathology, synergizing research on fish as model organisms in experimental psychopathology, personality neuroscience, and ecological-ethological approaches to the evolutionary underpinnings of personality to produce a powerful framework to understand individual differences.

Keywords

Behavioral syndromes; Fish personality; Neural bases of personality; Evolution of personality

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Neuroscience and Neurology

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