Desire for social contact, not empathy, may explain "rescue" behavior in rats

Animal Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 609-618

  Silberberg, Alan ^a   Allouch, Candice ^a   Sandfort, Samantha ^a   Kearns, David ^a   Karpel, Heather ^a   Slotnick, Burton ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Empathy; Neophobia; Rats; Social contact

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COOPERATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84921729303     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0692-1     Document Type: Article

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