Studies in human and non‐human species suggest that decision‐making behaviour can be
biased by an affective state, also termed an affective bias. To study these behaviours in non …

Background Reliable measurement of affective state in animals is a significant goal of
animal welfare. Such measurements would also improve the validity of pre-clinical mental …

Validated measures of animal affect are crucial to research spanning numerous disciplines.
Judgement bias, which assesses decision-making under ambiguity, is a promising measure …

Decision-making under ambiguity in cognitive bias tasks is a promising new indicator of
affective valence in animals. Rat studies support the hypothesis that animals in a negative …

Good translatability of behavioral measures of affect (emotion) between human and
nonhuman animals is core to comparative studies. The judgment bias (JB) task, which …

In humans, affective states can bias responses to ambiguous information: a phenomenon
termed judgment bias (JB). Judgment biases have great potential for assessing affective …

Human decisions are often biased by emotions. Stressed and depressed individuals tend to
make negative, pessimistic judgements while those in positive affective states are often …

Shortly after the above paper was published in Behavioural Brain Research, the authors
discovered errors in the dataset they had analysed. After re-analysing a corrected dataset …

Emotional states are known to affect cognitive processes. For example highly anxious
individuals interpret ambiguous stimuli more negatively than low anxious people, an effect …

Human decision making is modified by emotional state. Rodents exhibit similar biases
during interpretation of ambiguous cues that can be altered by affective state manipulations …