Topic: social decision-making paradigm

Learning from others is one of the main expressions of humans’ social nature. Evolution has favored this capacity, conserved across species, for the environmental advantages compared to trial-and-error learning. Social group members are critical agents for the learning and development of social and prosocial behaviors. However, whether rodents can acquire prosocial behaviors through observation is not understood. Here, we used a social decision-making paradigm (SDM) in mice in which an observer can learn from a demonstrator how to share a reward with their conspecifics. Following observation,