Mr. right versus Mr. right now: A discounting-based approach to promiscuity.

abstract：:In many primates, infants possess distinctive coloration that changes as a function of age. This colour is thought to serve the purpose of eliciting caretaking behaviour from the mother as well as other conspecifics. The present study investigated the responses of adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to pictu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gerald MS,Waitt C,Maestripieri D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals foraging in heterogeneous environments benefit from information on local resource density because it allows allocation of foraging effort to rich patches. In foraging groups, this information may be obtained by individuals through sampling or by observing the foraging behaviour of group members. We studied the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stenberg M,Persson A

更新日期：2005-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic mild stress (CMS) is a widely accepted animal model relevant to depression that among other consequences, is chiefly known to induce anhedonia, often assessed as decreased preference for sucrose solution. CMS is also known to affect cognition, particularly memory tasks. In this study we have employed the multi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Raya J,Girardi CEN,Esumi LA,Ferreira LBT,Hipólide DC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cognitive ability in farm animals are valuable, not only because they provide indicators of the commonality of comparative influence, but understanding farm animal cognition may also aid in management and treatment procedures. Here, eight dwarf goats (Capra hircus) learned a series of 10 visual four-choice ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Langbein J,Siebert K,Nuernberg G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research in the behavioral decision making literature has demonstrated that humans hyperbolically discount the subjective value of options as the number of options increases (Reed et al., 2012). These findings provide a cognitive-behavioral synthesis of the "choice overload" phenomenon, also known as the "parad...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaplan BA,Reed DD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 20th century there has been considerable progress in the study of animal cognition, based on essential ideas that were developed earlier. These essential ideas include the metaphors of the animal, the questions, the sources of hypotheses, and the types of explanations. The progress cannot be generally chara...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Church RM

更新日期：2001-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a widely accepted vocabulary referring to various types of social learning has made important contributions to decades of progress in analyzing the role of socially acquired information in the development of behavioral repertoires. It is argued here that emergence of a consensus vocabulary, while facili...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galef BG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateralisation, the different use of one or other side or appendix of the body, is basically determined by brain asymmetry which, in turn, is likely to be due to adaptive reasons. Several studies have been carried out on birds in general. However, birds of prey in particular, although they are very good candidates, ha...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Csermely D

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments using rats in an appetitive conditioning procedure analyzed the effect of short and long (50s vs. 1440s) intertrial intervals (ITI) over the acquisition of conditioned stimulus (CS), context (Ctxt), and unconditioned stimulus (US) associations, as well as the effect on the extinction and renewal of t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carranza-Jasso R,Urcelay GP,Nieto J,Sánchez-Carrasco L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird songs have evolved under sexual selection pressure. Songs include multiple features that are subject to female preference, but recent comparative research has indicated evolutionary tradeoffs between song performance and complexity in some species. Trill, a repetition of the same sound, is a performance-related s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kagawa H,Soma M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Behavior which is effective only through the mediation of other persons has so many distinguishing dynamic and topographical properties that a special treatment is justified and indeed demanded" (Skinner, 1957, p. 2). Skinner's demand for a special treatment of verbal behavior can be extended within that field to dom...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Marr MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pigeons were trained to peck a key under different values of a temporally defined independent variable (T) and different probabilities of reinforcement (p). Parameter T is a fixed repeating time cycle and p the probability of reinforcement for the first response of each cycle T. Two dependent variables were used:...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dembo M,De Penfold JB,Ruiz R,Casalta H

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hungry rats were trained to press one lever for a sucrose solution and another for food pellets on a concurrent schedule. The contingency between lever pressing and reinforcement was then reduced by delivering either free sucrose solution or free food pellets. The non-contingent schedule resulted in a greater reductio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dickinson A,Mulatero CW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pigeons were exposed to various fixed-interval (FI) 30-s conditions which included a standard FI30-s condition. In all remaining conditions, a red "start" key light began the interval. Completion of various fixed ratios (FR) on the start key lit a green "work" key light. In Experiment 1, one peck on the start key...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rutter S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For drug-dependent individuals, drugs of abuse that are delayed in time are discounted more steeply than money delayed in time in a hypothetical choice task. The reasons for this finding are not clear. This study examined whether steep discounting of drugs relative to money might be related to the function of drugs as...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Odum AL,Rainaud CP

更新日期：2003-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Four rats responded under a choice reaction-time procedure. At the beginning of each trial, the rats were required to hold down a center lever for a variable duration, release it following a high- or low-pitched tone, and press either a left or right lever, conditionally on the tone. Correct choices were reinforced wi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hayashi Y,Wirth O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates flexibly change their grooming behavior depending on group size and composition to maintain social relationships among group members. However, how drastic social changes influence their grooming behavior remains unclear. We observed the grooming behavior of adult female Japanese macaques in two groups tempora...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kurihara Y,Nishikawa M,Mochida K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant correlations (P<0.05) between meals and preceding intervals were shown more often by Japanese quail when fed on diluted mash (40% cellulose) than with undiluted mash or pellets. They showed significant correlations between meals and succeeding intervals with about the same frequency on all three foods. Mos...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Savory CJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation is a very powerful force that shapes many ungulate traits. It is widely known that increasing vigilance intensity is costly and leads to a decline of forage intake. Consequently, ungulates gather into larger groups to reduce an individual vigilance burden by using the "many eyes" effect and to enhance their ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Blank DA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mate choice is a well studied mechanism of sexual selection that can affect the evolution of male secondary sexual traits. However, males also exhibit selective mate choice in some animals, which can affect the evolution of female phenotypes. We tested for evidence of intraspecific male mate choice in the Rainb...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Soudry O,Kaira H,Parsa S,Mendelson T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia involves positive, negative and cognitive symptoms, as well as comorbidity with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle response is a measure of sensorimotor gating that is impaired in schizophrenia and animal models of the disease. Remarkably, impaired PPI has...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tapias-Espinosa C,Río-Álamos C,Sampedro-Viana D,Gerbolés C,Oliveras I,Sánchez-González A,Tobeña A,Fernández-Teruel A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence and research interest of animal personality, its underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Due to the essential role of monoamines in modulating behaviour, we manipulated the monoaminergic systems of Mediterranean field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) to explore whether this altered beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lundgren KA,Abbey-Lee RN,Garnham LC,Kreshchenko A,Ryding S,Løvlie H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birdsong is a particularly useful model for animal communication studies. However, current knowledge is derived mainly from the study of male song, and is therefore incomplete. Here, we investigated whether singing behaviour differs between sexes in the cooperatively breeding Western Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dutour M,Ridley AR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the preference of prepubescent and adult rats for an unrelated conspecific over a closely related conspecific (e.g., father, mother). Preference was measured by the amount of time spent in the vicinity of the stimulus animals as well as who was visited first. To prevent mating behavior, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bolton JL,Winland C,Ford B,Burbey A,Zewail-Foote M,Guarraci FA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to time was investigated to test the linear-timing hypothesis. A long duration was adjusted until accuracy was 75% correct for a short duration in a two-choice procedure. Short durations (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 s) were selected from previous research that suggests that sensitivity to time is non...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Crystal JD

更新日期：2001-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Being motivated means exerting effort toward a goal. The 'law of least work' emphasizes a preference for exerting relatively less effort. The law crosses boundaries among species and between physical and mental work. Organisms should be highly sensitive to shifts in effort-reward balance (ERB) in order to make optimal...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Knauss ZT,Filipovic M,Smith KA,Queener MM,Lubera JA,Bolden-Hall NM,Smith JP,Goldsmith RS,Bischoff JE,Miller MK,Cromwell HC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) principle as a tool, we investigated how Allenby's gerbils (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi) utilized food patches within and moved between connected quadrants (i.e., 'habitats') in a large outdoor semi-natural enclosure. These habitats differed in initial forager densities, bu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Makin DF,Kotler BP

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foraging behaviour of gastropod molluscs usually involves complex decisions that provide a model for the study of high-order cognitive processes. Land snails tested for food-finding in the laboratory, however, have shown an invariable feeding pattern: novel foods are mostly missed (i.e. just found by chance) whils...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rodríguez M,Álvarez B,Loy I

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the shape of the electric pulses and their rhythm of emission serve in communication in weakly-electric mormyrid fish. Because the pulses emitted by a given individual show very little variability, whereas the rhythm of emission is highly variable, the mormyrids electric emission can be considered to be the repet...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Teyssedre C,Serrier J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When competing for mates, males typically exhibit higher rates of intrasexual aggression and courtship than females. Operational sex ratio, represented here by adult sex ratio (ASR) as a proxy, is likely the best predictor of this competition, which typically increases between members of one sex as members of the oppo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chuard PJC,Brown GE,Grant JWA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00