ArticleBiology letters2021
An opinion on the interpretation of social release in rats.
Article in Biology letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Norway rats recruit cooperation partners based on previous receipt of help while disregarding kinship.iScience · 2024Article
- No evidence tube entrapment distresses rodents in typical empathy tests.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Spontaneous helping in pigs is mediated by helper's social attention and distress signals of individuals in need.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Sociability versus empathy in adolescent mice: Different or distinctive?Learning and motivation · 2023Article
- Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
This commentary concerns a controversial animal model in rodent social release research wherein one rat releases another rat from entrapment in a plastic tube. Release from the plastic tube has been proposed as a model to study empathically motivated behaviour. However, empathic motivations have been contested by others who have provided evidence for social reinforcement motivating release behaviour. Furthermore, helping, or other forms of pro-social behaviour could exist independent of empathy or empathetic motivation and the stimuli occasioning this helping behaviour are not known. In addition, there is a dearth in the citations of published studies whose results fail to support this model. In other words, the controversial aspect of the rodent social release model is often overlooked. This controversy is described in the current opinion piece.
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