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John P. Capitanio is a Research Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as a Core Scientist at the California National Primate Research Center, also at UC Davis. His research interests are in understanding the causes, correlates, and consequences of variation in temperament in rhesus monkeys.

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Capitanio was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1953, and grew up in a rural area outside of that city. After graduating from Cathedral High School in Springfield in 1971, he earned his B.S. degree in Psychology (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in December, 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Psychology from the University of California, Davis, in 1982, and took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center from 1982 to 1984, where his focus was on developmental psychobiology. His principal academic...

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  • Capitanio, J. P. (in press). Variation in biobehavioral organization. In S. Schapiro (Ed.), Handbook of primate behavioral management. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

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  • Capitanio, J. P., Blozis, S. A., Snarr, J., Steward, A., & McCowan, B. J. (2017). Do “birds of a feather flock together” or do “opposites attract”? Behavioral responses and temperament predict success in pairings of rhesus monkeys in a laboratory setting. American Journal of Primatology, 79, e22464. doi:10.1002/ajp.22464.

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  • Capitanio, J. P., & Mason, W. A. (in press). Personality as adaptation: Perspectives from nonhuman primates. In D. R. Lynam & D. B. Samuel (Eds.), Using basic personality research to inform the personality disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • Capitanio, J. P., Mendoza, S. P., & Cole, S. W. (2011). Nervous temperament in infant monkeys is associated with reduced sensitivity of leukocytes to cortisol’s influence on trafficking. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 25, 151–159.

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  • Chun, K., Miller, L. A., Schelegle, E. S., Hyde, D. M., & Capitanio, J. P. (2013). Behavioral inhibition in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) is related to the airways response, but not immune measures, commonly associated with asthma. PloS One, 8(8), e71575. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071575.

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  • Cole, S. W., Capitanio, J. P., Chun, K., Arevalo, J. M. G., Ma, J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2015). Myeloid differentiation architecture of leukocyte transcriptome dynamics in perceived social isolation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 15142–15147.

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  • Hinde, K., Skibiel, A. L., Foster, A. B., del Rosso, L., Mendoza, S. P., & Capitanio, J. P. (2015). Cortisol in mother’s milk reflects maternal life history and predicts infant temperament. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 269–281.

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  • Kinnally, E. L., & Capitanio, J. P. (2015). Paternal early experiences influence infant development through non-social mechanisms in Rhesus Macaques. Frontiers in Zoology, 12(Suppl 1), S14. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1-S14.

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  • Kinnally, E. L., Capitanio, J. P., Leibel, R., Deng, L., LeDuc, C., Haghighi, F., & Mann, J. J. (2010). Epigenetic regulation of serotonin transporter expression and behavior in infant rhesus macaques. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 9, 575–582.

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  1. Department of Psychology, and California National Primate Research Center, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    John P. Capitanio

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Capitanio, J.P. (2017). Capitanio, John P.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_393-1

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