animal personality

Animal Personality Personality is a term used to designate what is usually unique or singular about an individual, essentially the characteristics that distinguish them from others. Thoughts, emotion, and behavior alone do not constitute the personality of an individual; it is hidden just behind those elements. Personality also implies a certain level of predictability about how a person will act and react under different circumstances. The term personality is used in many ways. You can refer to everything that is known about a person or what is unique about someone or typical of a person. From a scientific point of view, we all have a personality. It 's just our individual psychological nature. We can think of personality as an individual 's personal identity. Identity has many components, some of which are more central than others: the core components define the person, while the secondary components are limited and are subject to change. As we meet someone, we acquire knowledge of their identity centered on descriptive affirmations of themselves. Central aspects that allow us to define or categorize the personality of an individual are characteristics such as traits, believes, behavior and other features. This presents the question to us: Is personality only limited to humans? As an attempt to try to resolve this enigma it would be safe to say that our only palpable comparison would be to an animal, after all we share multiple components with different Animalia species such as basic needs and behavioral stability. But does this really mean they are also capable of expressing traits such as emotions and complex thinking as to develop a personality such as humans? "Darwin himself argued that emotions exist in non-human animals, and his evolutionary theory suggests that behavioral traits, including personality, can evolve in just the same way as fins, wings and arms" (Gosling 2001). Needless to say any person not just psychologists, feels confident

References: Gosling, D. (2001, August 1). Animals have personalities, emotions and thoughts, just as humans do, UT Austin psychologist says. Retrieved August 28, 2014, from http://www.utexas.edu/news/2001/08/01/nr_gosling/ Todd, Z. (2013, February 13). Companion Animal Psychology. Retrieved August 28, 2014, from http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/02/do-dogs-have-stable-personality-traits.html