Evidence That Emotion Mediates Social Attention in Rhesus Macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bethell, Emily J ^a   Holmes, Amanda ^a   MacLarnon, Ann ^a   Semple, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEALTH; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84865605433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044387     Document Type: Article

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