Indicators of positive and negative emotions and emotional contagion in pigs

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-50

  Reimert, Inonge ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a   Kemp, Bas ^a   Rodenburg, T Bas ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotional contagion; Empathy; Pigs; Play behavior; Positive emotions

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PEAT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BARK; BODY POSTURE; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; EMOTIONALITY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FREEZING; MALE; MICTURITION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRAW; SWINE; TAIL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84871514933     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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