Animal behaviour: Cognitive bias and affective state

By Emma Harding, Elizabeth S. Paul, M. Mendl. Nature, 2004

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Social Psychology

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Can domestic fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus, show self-control? (2005, neutral): “Furthermore, approaches based on measurement of cognition may provide better indicators of emotion, because the behavioural and physiological measures currently used may dissociate from conscious experience (Harding et al. 2004; Mendl & Paul 2004).”
Release from restraint generates a positive judgement bias in sheep (2010, methodology): “Specifically, there is evidence suggesting that we may be able to measure emotional valence in animals by investigating underlying biases in the way they interpret information (Harding et al., 2004; Bateson and Matheson, 2007; Burman et al., 2008; Matheson et al., 2008; Mendl et al., 2009).”
An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood (2010, background): “…to the avoidance of fitness reduction, thus primarily inhabit the Q2–Q4 axis and, owing to their potentially life-threatening sequelae, generally assume primacy over Q1–Q3 states associated with the acquisition of fitness-enhancing rewards (e.g. Haselton & Nettle 2006; cf. Dawkins & Krebs 1979).”
Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats (2011, methodology): “In the ﬁ rst of the studies, Harding et al. (2004) trained rats, Rattus norvegicus , to press a lever to obtain a food reward in response to one ‘ training ’ tone (the positive stimulus) and to refrain from pressing in response to a different ‘ training ’ tone (the negative stimulus) to avoid a…”
Defining and assessing animal pain (2014, neutral): “This technique has only been applied to animals relatively recently and involves measuring cognitive or judgement biases in the interpretation of ambiguous information (e.g. Brydges et al., 2011; Douglas et al., 2012; Harding et al., 2004; Mendl, Burman, Parker, & Paul, 2009).”
Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological well-being in captive rhesus macaques (2012, methodology): “Animals then underwent a 70 manipulation presumed to induce a shift in underlying affective state, for example disrupted 71 housing conditions to induce a negative shift (Harding et al 2004), or environmental 72 enrichment to induce a positive shift (Bateson & Matheson 2007).”
A spatial judgement task to determine background emotional state in laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus (2008, background): “In a previous study (Harding et al., 2004), the authors developed a test of judgement bias, one category of cognitive bias (Paul et al., 2005), in which rats were trained to press a lever to gain a food reward after a particular tone had been played (e.g. 2kHz), but to refrain from pressing the…”
The Science of Animal Suffering (2008, background): “Looking for ‘cognitive biases’ is an indirect way of finding out whether animals are contented or discontented with what they have (Harding et al. 2004).”
Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2008, background): “First, the delay to reward following a correct response was changed to create differentially valued outcomes analogous to the food and white noise in Harding et al. (2004).”