ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Spontaneous helping in pigs is mediated by helper's social attention and distress signals of individuals in need.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Do pigs have altruistic behaviour based on cognitive empathy?BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Individual Variability in Rat Helping Behavior: A Role for Social Affiliation and Oxytocin Receptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Norway rats recruit cooperation partners based on previous receipt of help while disregarding kinship.iScience · 2024Article
- Possible relations between emotional contagion and social buffering.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research.Animal cognition · 2024Review
- Changes in salivary oxytocin in response to biologically-relevant events in farm animals: method optimization and usefulness as a biomarker.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Spontaneous helping in pigs is mediated by helper's social attention and distress signals of individuals in need.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Life expectancy in ants explains variation in helpfulness regardless of phylogenetic relatedness.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Helping behaviour is of special interest for prosociality because it appears to be motivated by the needs of others. We developed a novel paradigm to investigate helping in pigs (
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