Making decisions under ambiguity: judgment bias tasks for assessing emotional state in animals

S Roelofs, H Boleij, RE Nordquist… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Judgment bias tasks (JBTs) are considered as a family of promising tools in the assessment
of emotional states of animals. JBTs provide a cognitive measure of optimism and/or …

Judgement bias in pigs is independent of performance in a spatial holeboard task and conditional discrimination learning

S Roelofs, E Murphy, H Ni, E Gieling, RE Nordquist… - Animal cognition, 2017 - Springer
Biases in judgement of ambiguous stimuli, as measured in a judgement bias task, have
been proposed as a measure of the valence of affective states in animals. We recently …