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Emotions on the loose: emotional contagion and the role of oxytocin in pigs

We studied emotional contagion, a simple form of empathy, and the role of oxytocin herein in pigs. Two training pigs per pen (n = 16 pens) were subjected to a positive treatment (pairwise access to a large compartment filled with peat, straw and some chocolate raisins) and a negative treatment (soci...

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Autores principales: Reimert, Inonge, Bolhuis, J. Elizabeth, Kemp, Bas, Rodenburg, T. Bas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25385575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0820-6