By “total investigation,” do you mean time spent investigating social and nonsocial stimuli, or movement throughout the arena, including time away from either stimulus?
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Examining whether social-cognition tasks isolate the claimed construct.
By “total investigation,” do you mean time spent investigating social and nonsocial stimuli, or movement throughout the arena, including time away from either stimulus?
Reproducibility alone would not isolate social motivation. Does the study include a nonsocial novelty or matched exploration control that could distinguish social preference from locomotor activity and novelty seeking?