A review of 25 years of the social interaction test.

By S. File, P. Seth. European Journal of Pharmacology, 2003

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Sociability and preference for social novelty in five inbred strains: an approach to assess autistic‐like behavior in mice (2004, methodology): “Conceptually similar to previous social interaction tests (Bales & Carter 2003; File & Seth 2003; Gheusi et al. 1994; Insel & Young 2001; Tang et al. 2003; Winslow 2003), the present behaviors focus on a more narrowly defined set of parameters.”
A spatial judgement task to determine background emotional state in laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus (2008, background): “There are also many behavioural tests of fear and anxiety developed in neuroscience and psychopharmacology research (e.g. Ramos & Mormède, 1998; File & Seth, 2003; Paul et al., 2005), and tests that allow us to ‘ask’ an animal what it wants (preference tests (e.g. Sherwin, 1996; Dawkins, 2003;…”