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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages 501-511Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.3.501
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orangutan; personality; animal; subjective well-being
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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) are semisolitary apes and, among the great apes, the most distantly related to humans. Raters assessed 152 orangutans on 48 personality descriptors; 140 of these orangutans were also rated on a subjective well-being questionnaire. Principal-components analysis yielded 5 reliable personality factors: Extraversion, Dominance, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Intellect. The authors found no factor analogous to human Conscientiousness. Among the orangutans rated on all 48 personality descriptors and the subjective well-being questionnaire, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and low Neuroticism were related to subjective well-being. These findings suggest that analogues of human, chimpanzee, and orangutan personality domains existed in a common ape ancestor.
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