Anxiolytic Treatment Impairs Helping Behavior in Rats
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Anxiolytic Treatment Impairs Helping Behavior in Rats
Despite decades of research with humans, the biological mechanisms that motivate an individual to help others remain poorly understood. In order to investigate the roots of pro-sociality in mammals, we established the helping behavior test, a paradigm in which rats are faced with a conspecific trapped in a restrainer that can only be opened from the outside. Over the course of repeated test ses...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00850