Multimodal cues displayed by submissive rats facilitate prosocial choices by dominants
Michael Gachomba,Joan Adrián Esteve Agraz,Kevin Caref,Aroa Sanz Maroto,Maria Helena Bortolozzo Gleich,Diego Andrés Laplagne,Cristina Márquez · COSYNE 2022
Animals often display prosocial behaviours, actions that benefit others, which are essential for social bonding and cooperation. Most studies on prosociality come from the Primate Order and have highlighted how features of the social context influence the expression of prosocial behavior, contributing to intraspecific and interspecific variation. However, less effort has been devoted to the detailed investigation of the behaviours of subjects, which is necessary to determine the proximate mechanisms through which the social context influences prosociality, across different species. To address
Fri, Mar 18, 2022