Elizabeth K Wood, Colt M Halter, Evan Byrne, Zachary D Baron, Michael Forvil, Leah Marett, Ellie Smith, Elia Hafen, Emily Hepworth, Miranda Johnson, Stephen J Suomi, J Dee Higley, William W Thompson
Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental trait first described by Jerome Kagan, is characterized by wariness to unfamiliar persons and novel situations. BI is a moderately stable trait, with biological and genetic underpinnings. Kagan's methodology for assessing BI is widely used in humans. Although this paradigm could be readily translated for use in nonhuman primates, thereby increasing generalizability from nonhuman primates to humans and fortifying evidence that BI is evolutionarily conserved, researchers have not done so...
January 22, 2024: Developmental Psychology