Feather pecking represents a serious problem in the poultry industry that can negatively
affect production as well as the welfare of laying hens. Although feather pecking has been …

Behavioral testing constitutes the primary method to measure the emotional states of
nonhuman animals in preclinical research. Emerging as the characteristic tool of the …

Optimal holding conditions are key to animal welfare. How stressful husbandry is perceived
by the animal can be determined via an assessment of an animal's mental state–where it is …

Emotional states of animals influence their cognitive processes as well as their behavior.
Assessing emotional states is important for animal welfare science as well as for many fields …

Judgement bias tasks (JBTs) are used to assess the influence of farm practices on livestock
affective states. The tasks must be adjusted to the species and age group of focus. In cattle …

The behaviour shown by an animal at any one time is the consolidated output of its
behavioural control mechanism. Moreover, what animals “want” is viewed as (the most) …

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

Most studies of the effects of housing and husbandry on animals' affective states and welfare
investigate the impact of stable living conditions, comparing for example, animals living in …

Previously, dog personality traits that seem to correspond have been identified by the Dog
Mentality Assessment (DMA) and the Behaviour and Personality Assessment in Dogs (BPH) …

Negative affect appears to mediate animals' attention to competing emotional stimuli (eg,
threatening vs. non-threatening conspecific face images), similarly to anxiety-related …