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Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience

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Ben-Ami Bartal, Inbal, Rodgers, David A, Bernardez Sarria, Maria Sol, Decety, Jean, Mason, Peggy·2014·eLife

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In mammals, helping is preferentially provided to members of one’s own group. Yet, it remains unclear how social experience shapes pro-social motivation. We found that rats helped trapped strangers by releasing them from a restrainer, just as they did cagemates. However, rats did not help strangers of a different strain, unless previously housed with the trapped rat. Moreover, pair-housing with one rat of a different strain prompted rats to help strangers of that strain, evidence that rats expand pro-social motivation from one individual to phenotypically similar others. To test if genetic relatedness alone can motivate helping, rats were fostered from birth with another strain and were not exposed to their own strain. As adults, fostered rats helped strangers of the fostering strain but not rats of their own strain. Thus, strain familiarity, even to one’s own strain, is required for the expression of pro-social behavior.

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Authors: Ben-Ami Bartal, I., Rodgers, D. A., Bernardez Sarria, M. S., Decety, J., & Mason, P.
Affiliations: Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
University of Chicago (US)
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Corresponding author: Mason, Peggy
ORCID: Mason, Peggy
Venue: eLife
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Published: 2014-01-14
Volume: 3
Pages: e01385-e01385
ISSN: 2050-084X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.7554/elife.01385
PMC: PMC3884117
OpenAlex: W2115556017
Cited by: 286
References: 66
Citations by year: 2026: 11 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 9
FWCI: 35.80
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (vor)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (am)
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Locations: eLife (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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University of Chicago (cc-by)
Funders: National Institutes of Health (DA022978, DA022429)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords: prosocial behavior, helping behavior, social experience, genetic relatedness, foster rearing, kin selection, rats
MeSH terms: Animals, Social Behavior, Rats

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