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ArticleAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England)2025

Successive negative contrast: An appropriate approach to measure affective state in dogs?

Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro, Parizad Baria-Unwalla, Ana Rita Cabrita, Ingrid Anna Olsson

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Article in Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ana Catarina Vieira de CastroIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3357-7282
Parizad Baria-UnwallaIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-170X
Ana Rita CabritaREQUIMTE, LAQV, ICBAS-UP - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Rua Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1904-0358
Ingrid Anna OlssonIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4369-8723

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Abstract

Successive negative contrast (SNC) is a decrease in response when animals unexpectedly face reward devaluation to levels below those of animals always receiving low-value rewards. SNC appears to be influenced by background affective states and has thus been proposed as a tool for assessing animal welfare. While reported in several mammal species, findings of SNC in dogs (

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affective statesanimal welfaredogsincentive contrastreward devaluationsuccessive negative contrast

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