Effects of optimism on motivation in rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Rygula, Rafal ^a   Golebiowska, Joanna ^a   Kregiel, Jakub ^a   Kubik, Jakub ^a   Popik, Piotr ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ambiguous cue interpretation; Cognitive judgment bias; Motivation; Optimism; Pessimism; Progressive ratio; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM; PUNISHMENT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

EID: 84925067724     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00032     Document Type: Article

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