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Helping can be driven by non-affective cues in rat

2022-07-03

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Helping another in distress can be motivated by either affective or cognitive empathy, with the latter commonly believed to be restricted to humans and possibly other apes. Here, we found evidence for rodent helping that occurs in the absence of affective cues. We employed a paradigm in which a free rat can open the door to a restrainer containing a trapped rat. When the trapped rat was treated with the anxiolytic...

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Literature Corpus work: d3f19be2-e337-5357-83db-734dc11353bd
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.01.498150

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