Affect-induced cognitive judgement biases occur in both humans and animals. Animals in a
more negative affective state tend to interpret ambiguous cues more negatively than animals …

Affective states can be evaluated by assessing shifts in the animal's expectation of a positive
and negative outcome in response to ambiguous cues, also known as judgement bias (JB) …

Accurate assessment of animal emotion (affect) is an important goal in animal welfare
science, and in areas such as neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Direct measures of …

Affective state can bias an animal's judgement. Animals in positive affective states can
interpret ambiguous cues more positively (“optimistically”) than animals in negative affective …

Negative affect in humans and animals is known to cause individuals to interpret ambiguous
stimuli pessimistically, a phenomenon termed 'cognitive bias'. Here, we used captive …

Interest in the induction and measurement of positive affective states in non-human animals
is increasing. Here, we used a test of cognitive (judgement) bias, based on the finding that …

In human psychology, the link between cognition and emotions is broadly accepted.
However, the idea of using the interaction between cognition and emotions as a tool for a …

Abstract Since Harding, Paul, and Mendl's (2004) seminal paper, a nonverbal paradigm for
testing cognitive judgement bias has been applied to assess affective states of a variety of …

Studies on consequences of affect on cognitive processing (cognitive bias) seem to provide
proxy measures of the valence (positive/negative) of affective states. This article presents a …

Experiments in humans have shown that changes in emotional (affective) state cause
adaptive changes in the processing of incoming information, termed “cognitive bias”. For …