Dominance status predicts social fear transmission in laboratory rats

Animal Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1051-1069

  Jones, Carolyn E ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Fear conditioning; Play behavior; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEAR; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; RATS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84978132514     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-016-1013-2     Document Type: Article

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