Regardless of their housing conditions, most happily approached all the bowls, a response that fits with what's known about animals with this personality trait, the researchers report today in Biology Letters.
Social novelty is represented by 14 items and is measured in 3 contexts: adults (4 items; e.g., "Is very talkative to adult strangers"), peers (6 items; e.g., "Will happily approach a group of unfamiliar children and join their play"), and performance situations (4 items; e.g., "Enjoys being the center of attention").
Short and bespectacled, with a long ponytail, he waved happily as I approached.
Everyone I approach happily talks at length, usually with a breezy kind of contentment, yet you do not have to look too hard to find concerns.
Happily married with three children, she had already begun fantasizing about her approaching retirement and a move back to Kentucky.
In this one, an ageing man with a horrible face approaches a happily married woman with a proposition that could earn her $1m.
Or that, now approaching 70, his anger and depression faced and pretty much conquered, he would be happily married, healthy, vigorous, productive, in his words, a lucky man?
Buried on page two is the startling detail that, prior to the disagreement, the armed men approached the victim happily, saying: "You're [all] right, mate – we thought you were blackfellas and we were going to shoot you".
As the hearing approached its end, Mr. Waxman happily ticked off all the things they had agreed to.
