Measuring and understanding personality in animals is a rising scientific field. Much
research has been conducted to assess distinctive individual differences in behavior in a …

Livestock production to provide food for a growing world population, with increasing demand
for meat and milk products, has led to a rapid growth in the scale of cattle and pig …

The study of animal emotion, as with its human equivalent, can be confusing due to the
complicated and inconsistent use of terminology, and the number of interlinked fields and …

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 …

Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an
accompanying call for viable means of assessing how well animals thrive. Past research …

Emotions are important because they enable the selection of appropriate behavioural
decisions in response to external or internal events. Techniques for understanding and …

While relatively little is known about the psychology of domestic pigs, what is known
suggests that pigs are cognitively complex and share many traits with animals whom we …

Robust methods to assess nonhuman animal emotion are essential for ensuring good
welfare in captivity. Cognitive bias measures such as the judgment bias task have recently …

Simple Summary Emotions or affective states recognition in farm animals is an
underexplored research domain. Despite significant advances in animal welfare research …

Our experiences of the conscious mental states that we call emotions drive our interest in
whether such states also exist in other animals. Because linguistic report can be used as a …