An opinion on the interpretation of social release in rats

This commentary concerns a controversial animal model in rodent social release research wherein one rat releases another rat from entrapment in a plastic tube. Release from the plastic tube has been proposed as a model to study empathically motivated behaviour. However, empathic motivations have bee...

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Published in:	Biology letters (2005) Vol. 17; no. 11; p. 20210355
Main Author:	Blystad, M H
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England The Royal Society 17-11-2021
Subjects:	Animal Behaviour Animals Empathy Helping Behavior Models, Animal Motivation Opinion Piece Rats Social Behavior empathy rat pro-social behaviour citation bias
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