Development of a cognitive bias methodology for measuring low mood in chimpanzees

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Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Nettle, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective state; Chimpanzee; Cognitive bias; Depression; Judgment bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITIVE BIAS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOOD; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84938562862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.998     Document Type: Article

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