Experience in aggressive contests often affects behaviour during, and the outcome of, later
contests. This review discusses evidence for, variations in, and consequences of such …

Social fear and avoidance of social situations represent the main behavioral symptoms of
social anxiety disorder (SAD), a highly prevalent anxiety disorder that is poorly elucidated …

Background Despite the twofold higher prevalence of major depressive and posttraumatic
stress disorders in women compared with men, most clinical and preclinical studies have …

Social signals can serve as potent emotional triggers with powerful impacts on processes
from cognition to valence processing. How are social signals dynamically and flexibly …

Tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the ultimate and proximate
mechanisms underlying social behavior, yet an integrative evolutionary analysis of its …

Complex behaviors, such as aggression, are comprised of distinct stereospecific behavioral
patterns (modules). How such patterns get wired into nervous systems remains unknown …

Stressful life experiences are known to be a precipitating factor for many mental disorders.
The social defeat model induces behavioral responses in rodents (eg reduced social …

The approaches of the social and the biological sciences to the study of behavior have been
seen as almost mutually exclusive. The nature versus nurture debate has been almost …

Territorial aggression is influenced by many social and environmental factors. Since
aggression is a costly behavior, individuals should account for multiple factors such as …

Organisms react to threats with a variety of behavioral, hormonal, and neurobiological
responses. The study of biological responses to stress has historically focused on the …