Dominance status predicts social fear transmission in laboratory rats
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Acquiring information about stimuli that predict danger, through either direct experience or inference from a social context, is crucial for individuals' ability to generate appropriate behaviors in response to threats. Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by proxy) that allows for free interaction between subjects, we show that social dominance hierarchy, and the interactive social behaviors of caged rats, is predictive of social fear transmission, with subordinate rats displaying increased fear responses after interacting with a fear-conditioned dominant rat during fear retrieval. Fear conditioning by proxy conserves some of the pathways necessary for direct fear learning (e.g., lateral amygdala) but is unique in that it requires regions necessary for emotional regulation (e.g., anterior cingulate cortex), making this paradigm an important tool for evaluating learning and behavior in the laboratory setting.
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In many studies of dominance among laboratory rats, a fraction of groups, ranging from about 5% to 35%, have asymmetries not pronounced enough to assign a clear social rank to some or any group members.
“In many studies of dominance among laboratory rats there is a fraction of groups (ranging from ~5% to ~35%) in which asymmetries between the individuals are not pronounced enough to assign a clear social rank to some/any of the group-members.50,94,102,103,119,124,126”
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Negative emotions are transferred more efficiently from dominant to subordinate individuals.
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- Authors
- Jones, C. E., & Monfils, M.-H.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Carolyn E.
- Venue
- Animal Cognition
- Published
- 2016-07-13
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1051-1069
- ISSN
- 1435-9448 (ISSN-L)
- 1435-9456
- PMC
- PMC5054054
- OpenAlex
- W2468482472
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 97
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Animal Cognition (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH091147)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- social dominance hierarchy, lateral amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, emotion regulation, social learning, rats
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Laboratory, Conditioning, Classical, Fear, Social Behavior, Social Environment, Rats
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