really nature news with me. Ross Swan. Does Personality Affect learning ability? Well, it seems that for marmoset monkeys, yes, it does. New research in the journal Scientific Reports by Vedran a slightly Bigger and colleagues from the University of Vienna show that more extrovert monkeys learn faster. The researchers first individually assessed the personalities of marmosets by recording their reactions to various tasks. They presented them with a range of unknown objects and with new types of food, and they even try to trick them with a toy snake to see which animals approached it first, some monkeys prove themselves to be quite outgoing, exploring confidently, while others were more likely to keep a distance. They then assessed their learning performance with tasks involving standing on a weighing scale and using a stick to touch a distant point. What they learned was interesting. The more extrovert the monkey, the faster it learned. They also found that females on the whole learned faster than males. They say that these findings support what is known as the speed, accuracy, tradeoff framework, where, in this case, speed predicts personality or personality, predicts speed. They also found that members of some families were quicker to learn than others. Now, if anything that suggests that we're really not all that different, more in ancient is tomorrow.

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