Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare.

By Alain Boissy, Gerhard Manteuffel, M. B. Jensen, R. Moe, B. Spruijt, L. Keeling, C. Winckler, B. Forkman, Ivan Dimitrov, J. Langbein and 3 more. Physiology and Behavior, 2007

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Assessment of animal welfare through behavioural parameters in Iberian pigs in intensive and extensive conditions (2011, background): “social activitymay not necessarily reflect a positive sates of the animal (Boissy et al., 2007).”
The Emotional Lives of Companion Animals: Attachment and Subjective Claims by Owners of Cats and Dogs (2016, background): “Emotions can act as a process to mobilize behavioral and physiological processes in response to stimuli that subsequently allow animals to avoid harm or approach resources, functioning to improve their chance of survival (Rolls 2000; Boissy et al. 2007).”
Assessing equine emotional state (2018, background): “Typical behavioural responses include increased vigilance behaviour, high head and tail position, snorting and locomotory responses (Forkman et al., 2007).”
Impact of Heat Stress on Poultry Production (2013, background): “…that heat stress is often times not experienced in isolation, being usually accompanied by other stressors, such as limited housing space and insufficient ventilation, as well as social interactions and previous experiences, which have been shown to affect the individual’s stress response [29,30].”
Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment (2021, background): “This finding is in line with the suggestion of Boissy et al. (Boissy et al., 2007) that vocalisations could be a useful tool for on-farm assessment of positive welfare.”
Can ear postures reliably measure the positive emotional state of cows (2014, background): “Despite this, there is still very little research seeking to understand and measure positive emotional states in animals (Boissy et al., 2007; Sandem et al., 2004).”
Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living” (2016, background): “Usually, therefore, these indices are not informative about the likely affective constituents of positive welfare states [41,44].”
The social network structure of a dynamic group of dairy cows:from individual to group level patterns (2016, background): “nimals (Boissy et al., 2007; Wasilewski, 2003), with the strength f social bonds often reflected by the degree of grooming between ndividuals.”
On-Farm Qualitative Behaviour Assessment of Dairy Goats in Different Housing Conditions (2016, background): “Most of the indicators developed for welfare assessment have been focused on negative aspects, and a need to develop more positive welfare indicators has been identified by several recent reviews (Boissy et al., 2007; Yeates and Main, 2008).”
The Use of Judgement Bias to Assess Welfare in Farm Livestock (2015, background): “The use of multi-dimensional measures of emotional states (ie physiological as well as behavioural parameters; Paul et al 2005; Boissy et al 2007) would facilitate much better interpretation of the findings of future studies.”
The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare (2020, background): “More specifically, enhanced circumstances enable animals to respond to genetically programmed or learned impulses to engage in agency-related behaviours that are linked to affectively positive experiences of anticipation, goal achievement and memory of success [35,37,45,51,53,59,60,63].”