Dr. Jana Uher       

 

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Comparative Differential 
and Personality Research

Presentations

Invited talks 

"Individual-specific patterns in behaviour and mind in humans and other animals" Colloquium Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 19 January, 2010.

"Behavioural Ecology and Comparative Differential and Personality Research: Exploring Differences and Commonalities" Lecture Series in Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland, 20 May, 2009.

"Comparative Personality Research - Relevance to Cognitive Primatology" Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 25 November, 2008.

"Comparative Personality Research and its Relevance for Animal Welfare" Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Rome, Italy, 24 November, 2008. 

"Methods and approaches in comparative personality research exemplified in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychologial Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany, 03 July, 2008. 

"Methods and approaches of personality assessment in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychological Institute, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany, 22 January, 2008. 

"Personality in the Great Apes - Methods and approaches" Colloquium of the Department of Personality Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 31 January, 2006.

Conference talks 

Uher, J. (2010). Methodological approaches in differential and personality research: New insights from a cross-species comparative perspective". Invited Symposium "Cross-species Perspectives on Differential and Personality Research". Convenors: Jana Uher & Mark James Adams. 15th European Conference on Personality (ECP15), in Brno, Czech Republic, 20-24 July, 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "The advocatus diaboli on animal personalities and behavioural syndromes as analogues of human personality". Invited participant. Symposium "The emergence of personality in animals". Organisers: Fritz Trillmich & Robyn Hudson. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF). Bielefeld University, 17-19 May 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "What is personality and how can we study it in primates?". Spring Meeting 2010 of the Primatological Society of Great Britain (PSGB), University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. 07-08 April 2010. 

Uher, J. (2010). "Sophisticated evolutionary psychology requires comparative approaches". 11th Annual meeting of the MVE-Liste (Menschliches Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive - Human behavior from evolutionary perspective). Berlin - Schloss Charlottenburg, 22-24 March, 2010.

Uher, J. (2009). "Methodische Zugänge in der Differentiellen und Persönlichkeitspsychologie: Neue Erkenntnisse aus artvergleichender Perspektive" [Methodological Approaches in Differential and Personality Psychology: New Insights from a Cross-species Perspective]. 10th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Koblenz-Landau, 28-30 September, 2009.

Uher, J. (2009). "Individual-/person-oriented approaches in primate personality research". 9th biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Methods and Evaluation, University Bielefeld, 10-12 September, 2009. 

Uher, J. (2009). "Personality research: Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the behaviour and mind of the individual". 3rd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Zürich, Switzerland, 12-15 August, 2009. Folia Primatologia, 80:147.

Uher, J. (2008). "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods". Symposium "How do we know that primate personality is real and useful?". Invited contribution. Convenors: Alex Weiss & Martina Konecna. XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society IPS 2008, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 03-08 August, 2008.

Uher, J. (2008). "Comparative personality research". Invited Symposium "Multidisciplinary advances in animal personality research".  Convenors: Kees van Oers & Jana Uher. 14th European Conference on Personality (ECP14), in Tartu, Estonia, 16-20 July, 2008.

Uher, J. (2006). "Methods of measuring personality differences in the behaviour of Great Apes" III. Interdisciplinary Symposium "Methods of Behavioural Research", Munich, Germany, 10 November, 2006. 

Lectures

"Individual-specific patterns in behaviour". Master course Behavioural Biology, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 10 May, 2010.

"Do animals have personality differences?" Lecture series in Evolutionary Psychology "What makes humans being human". Department of Psychology, Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 05 May, 2010.

"Are personality differences uniquely human?" Lecture series in evolutionary psychology "What makes humans being human". Department of Psychology, Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 01 July, 2009.

Publicity in the public media (selection)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26.05.2010 
Tygodnik Wprost, Polish magazine, 19.05.2008 [pdf]
Nano, 3Sat, 30.05.2005 [pdf]
Wieso Weshalb Warum, SWR, 28.04.2005 [pdf]
Live studio guest, Mittagsmagazin, MDR, 15.01.2004