What would a comprehensive atlas of human emotions include? For 50 years, scientists
have sought to map emotion-related experience, expression, physiology, and recognition in …

Within affective science, the central line of inquiry, animated by basic emotion theory and
constructivist accounts, has been the search for one-to-one map**s between six emotions …

The plus-maze, the light–dark box and the open-field are the main current tests of
unconditioned anxiety for mice and rats. Despite their disappointing achievements, they …

The traditional notion of aggression as an antisocial instinct is being replaced by a
framework that considers it a tool of competition and negotiation. When survival depends on …

Knowledge of how animals manage their conflicts is critical for understanding the dynamics
of social systems. During the last two decades research on gregarious animals, especially …

Traditionally, research on human stress has relied mostly on physiological and
psychological measures with a relatively minor emphasis on the behavioral aspects of the …

Emotions suffuse much of the language employed by students of animal behavior—from
“social bonding” to “alarm calls”—yet are carefully avoided as an explicit topic in scientific …

Heart rate telemetry was explored as a means to access animal emotion during social
interactions under naturalistic conditions. Heart rates of 2 middle-ranking adult females …

Consolation, ie, postconflict affiliative interaction directed from a third party to the recipient of
aggression, is assumed to have a stress-alleviating function. This function, however, has …

BACKGROUND: Interferon (IFN)-alpha is an innate immune cytokine that causes high rates
of depression in humans and therefore has been used to study the impact of cytokines on …