Social interactions among rodent conspecifics: a review of experimental paradigms
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The authors suggest that kin selection theory offers a different perspective from which to examine social interactions among rodent conspecifics. Paradigms designed to investigate various interactions among rodent conspecifics are presented, and include simple affiliative behaviors, social facilitation, and cooperation. It is established that many species of rodents are appropriately social to use as subjects under investigation in research which focuses on topics such as kin selection. Studies reporting positive results as well as some reporting negative or inconclusive results have been presented for the purpose of informing the reader under which conditions we might expect specific social behaviors to occur. It is concluded that a combined method of a sociobiological perspective using established experimental procedures will offer unique opportunities for the investigation of specific predictions suggested by kin selection theory.
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Rodents are innately social and fare better in social rather than isolated housing.
“Many animal studies have used rodents as their preferred animal model as these are innately social creatures and fare better in social rather than isolated housing.32”
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- Authors
- Wills, G. D., Wesley, A. L., Moore, F. R., & Sisemore, D. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Mississippi (US)
- ORCID
- Moore, Frank R.
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1983-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 315-323
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2023144960
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 97
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Keywords
- rodent social behavior, kin selection, affiliative behavior, social facilitation, cooperation, conspecific interactions, sociobiology, experimental paradigms, animal sociality
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conditioning, Operant, Consummatory Behavior, Cooperative Behavior, Discrimination, Psychological, Drive, Emotions, Ethology, Motor Activity, Psychological Theory, Sibling Relations, Smell, Social Behavior, Social Facilitation, Species Specificity, Mice, Rats
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