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

Refining the housing and husbandry of laboratory rats is an important goal, both for ethical
reasons and to allow better quality research. We conducted a mapping review of 1,017 …

Individuals differ in the way they judge ambiguous information: some individuals interpret
ambiguous information in a more optimistic, and others in a more pessimistic way. Over the …

We previously identified in laboratory mice an inactive state [being awake with eyes open
motionless within the home cage; inactive but awake,'IBA'] sharing etiological factors and …

Describing certain animal behaviours as 'depression-like'or 'depressive'has become
common across several fields of research. These typically involve unusually low activity or …

The absence of poor welfare is important for welfare to be good, but measures of good
welfare are of great value in welfare assessment. Assessors of the welfare of individuals …

Rationale There is an urgent need to identify behaviours in animals that can provide insight
into the aetiology and potential treatment of depression in humans. Objectives This study …

A positive mood in humans tends to broaden attentional scope while negative mood
narrows it. A similar effect may be present in non-human animals; therefore, attentional …

Environmental enrichment in zebrafish generally reduces anxiety-related behaviours,
improves learning in maze trials and increases health and biological fitness. However …

Range use by free-range laying hen flocks is heterogeneous. We hypothesized that ranging
behaviour may be motivated by curiosity and thwarted by fearfulness. This project aimed to …