A Recent Paper in Science Showing Empathy - Based Consolation in the Prairie Vole . Ask Me Anything about Empathy
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CITATION: Excessive self grooming in mice has been used as a model for obsessive compulsive disorder. The fact that the prairie voles do this as consoling behaviour does suggest grooming is comforting. But it also seems that in some strains of mice, but not all, barbering is thought to be a sign of dominance and/or aggression. How can you differentiate between a potentially comforting behaviour and an aggressive one? Are there any measures to suggest being groomed by a partner or cagemate reduces stress?
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