All posts; Tags Include "Choice"
- March 18, 2015
- 08:30 AM
- 406 views
The Right to Walk Away
by CAPB in Companion Animal Psychology Blog
What can pet owners learn from the way scientists give animals choices in research?When people take part in research, scientists must ensure they give informed consent. When the participants are pets, owners give consent on their behalf: they understand the risks of the research and they have the right to end their participation at any time (e.g. if they feel their dog is stressed). We can’t ask animals about their feelings, but scientists have several ways they give the pets a choice.In Sarah........ Read more »
Ellis, S., Thompson, H., Guijarro, C., & Zulch, H. (2014) The influence of body region, handler familiarity and order of region handled on the domestic cat's response to being stroked. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2014.11.002
Feuerbacher, E., & Wynne, C. (2015) Shut up and pet me! Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) prefer petting to vocal praise in concurrent and single-alternative choice procedures. Behavioural Processes, 47-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.08.019
Merola I, Prato-Previde E, & Marshall-Pescini S. (2012) Dogs' social referencing towards owners and strangers. PloS one, 7(10). PMID: 23071828
- December 17, 2014
- 08:30 AM
- 450 views
Picking a New Dog is a Complex Choice
by CAPB in Companion Animal Psychology Blog
It’s not a case of ‘any puppy will do’ - the whole package counts.Photo: DragoNika / ShutterstockSurprisingly little is known about how people choose a new dog considering how popular they are. While it’s a personal choice, it has wider implications – humane societies would really like to know how to increase adoptions from shelters and decrease purchases from puppy mills. Could relocation programs, where dogs are brought in from out of town, be part of the solution?A new paper by Laur........ Read more »
Garrison, L., & Weiss, E. (2014) What Do People Want? Factors People Consider When Acquiring Dogs, the Complexity of the Choices They Make, and Implications for Nonhuman Animal Relocation Programs. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 18(1), 57-73. DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2014.943836
Mornement, K., Coleman, G., Toukhsati, S., & Bennett, P. (2012) What Do Current and Potential Australian Dog Owners Believe about Shelter Practices and Shelter Dogs?. Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People , 25(4), 457-473. DOI: 10.2752/175303712X13479798785850
Siettou, C., Fraser, I., & Fraser, R. (2014) Investigating Some of the Factors That Influence “Consumer” Choice When Adopting a Shelter Dog in the United Kingdom. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 17(2), 136-147. DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2014.883924
- May 7, 2014
- 08:30 AM
- 869 views
What Do People Look for When Adopting a Dog?
by CAPB in Companion Animal Psychology Blog
A study of over 2000 shelter dogs investigates the physical and behavioural characteristics that make dogs get rehomed faster. Some of the results may surprise you.Photo: Melissa King / ShutterstockA recent study by Christina Siettou et al (University of Kent) uses techniques from consumer analysis to gain a better understanding of people’s choices when adopting a dog from a shelter. The researchers looked at the different characteristics of dogs waiting for homes and compared it to the ........ Read more »
Siettou, C., Fraser, I., & Fraser, R. (2014) Investigating Some of the Factors That Influence “Consumer” Choice When Adopting a Shelter Dog in the United Kingdom. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 17(2), 136-147. DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2014.883924
- September 11, 2013
- 08:30 AM
- 1,196 views
Can Dogs Smell Quantity of Food?
by CAPB in Companion Animal Psychology Blog
We all know dogs’ noses are amazing. From careful attention to the pee-points on their walk, to working as drug or explosive detection dogs, it’s clear dogs have an excellent sense of smell. So it’s surprising that most studies of olfaction are about specially trained dogs, and less attention has been paid to the average pet dog. A paper in press in the journal Learning and Motivation, by Alexandra Horowitz, Julie Hecht and Alexandra Dedrick, sets out to change all that by asking, can........ Read more »
Horowitz, A., Hecht, J., & Dedrick, A. (2013) Smelling more or less: Investigating the olfactory experience of the domestic dog. Learning and Motivation. info:/
Prato-Previde E, Marshall-Pescini S, & Valsecchi P. (2008) Is your choice my choice? The owners' effect on pet dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) performance in a food choice task. Animal cognition, 11(1), 167-74. PMID: 17641921
- October 9, 2012
- 03:00 AM
- 1,202 views
One-eyed wooing: beauty is in the right eye of the beholder for finches | @GrrlScientist
by GrrlScientist in GrrlScientist
GrrlScientist: a newly published study shows that beauty is in the right eye of the beholder for birds, providing the first demonstration in any animal of visual lateralization of mate choice... Read more »
Jennifer J. Templeton, D. James Mountjoy, Sarah R. Pryke, & Simon C. Griffith. (2012) In the eye of the beholder: visual mate choice lateralization in a polymorphic songbird. Biology Letters. info:/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0830
L. Workman, & R.J. Andrew. (1986) Asymmetries of eye use in birds. Animal Behaviour, 34(5), 1582-1584. info:/10.1016/S0003-3472(86)80235-4
Orsola Rosa Salva, Lucia Regolin, Elena Mascalzoni, & Giorgio Vallortigara. (2012) Cerebral and behavioural asymmetries in animal social recognition. Comparative Cognition , 110-138. info:/10.3819/ccbr.2012.70006
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- Neuroscience
- Ecology / Conservation
- Conservation
- Taeniopygia guttata
- passeriformes
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Gouldian finch
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Erythrura gouldiae
- mate choice
- visual lateralization
- Evolutionary Biology
- polymorphic
- Behavioral Ecology
- Behavioral Biology
- Reproduction
- birds
- Zoology
- passerines
- Ornithology
- zebra finch
- September 27, 2012
- 07:06 AM
- 1,175 views
Journal club: Choosy females speed speciation of poison dart frogs
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
SUMMARY: Female poison dart frogs’ distinct preferences for mates with particular colours may be a first step in the process of speciation... Read more »
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J . Wang, & Kyle Summers. (2012) Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 3879-3892. info:/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
- September 27, 2012
- 04:00 AM
- 1,374 views
Choosy females speed speciation of poison dart frogs | @GrrlScientist
by GrrlScientist in GrrlScientist
Female poison dart frogs' distinct preferences for mates with particular colours may be a first step in the process of speciation... Read more »
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J . Wang, & Kyle Summers. (2012) Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 3879-3892. info:/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
- November 2, 2011
- 04:03 PM
- 895 views
Night of the Bargain Hunter: some bats pick prey based on the cost of the hunt
by Matt Soniak in mattsoniak.com
While they’re less likely to Wall Street than a barn upstate, bats are as concerned as we are about the economy. Their economy revolves around energy instead of money, though, and a problem on the balance sheet can be a matter of life and death. If they spend more energy catching a meal than that [...]... Read more »
Koselj K, Schnitzler HU, & Siemers BM. (2011) Horseshoe bats make adaptive prey-selection decisions, informed by echo cues. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 278(1721), 3034-41. PMID: 21367788
Jones, G. (1990) Prey Selection by the Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum): Optimal Foraging by Echolocation?. The Journal of Animal Ecology, 59(2), 587. DOI: 10.2307/4882
Salvatore J. Agosta, David Morton, & Kellie M. Kuhn. (2003) Feeding ecology of the bat Eptesicus fuscus: ‘preferred’ prey abundance as one factor influencing prey selection and diet breadth . Journal of Zoology , 260(2), 169-177. info:/10.1017/S0952836903003601
- June 27, 2011
- 04:47 PM
- 1,568 views
The stresses of Mr Wrong
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
ABSTRACT: Having a genetically incompatible mate can increase a female bird's stress hormone levels which then can affect the sex ratio of her offspring ... Read more »
Pryke, S., Rollins, L., Buttemer, W., & Griffith, S. (2011) Maternal stress to partner quality is linked to adaptive offspring sex ratio adjustment. Behavioral Ecology, 22(4), 717-722. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr040
Pryke, S., & Griffith, S. (2009) Postzygotic genetic incompatibility between sympatric color morphs. Evolution, 63(3), 793-798. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00584.x
- April 4, 2011
- 10:18 AM
- 2,426 views
Foolish Familiarity
by APS Daily Observations in Daily Observations
You’re running late to an important meeting; there’s a cab close by from a company you don’t know and a cab further away from a company you know well, which ... Read more »
Litt A, Reich T, Maymin S, & Shiv B. (2011) Pressure and Perverse Flights to Familiarity. Psychological Science. PMID: 21372324
- February 28, 2011
- 09:34 AM
- 2,155 views
To Bet or Not To Bet, That is The March Madness Question
by APS Daily Observations in Daily Observations
March Madness is here! Don’t stop yourself from filling out brackets because you think you won’t care much about how it turns out. Research suggests you’re not so great at ... Read more »
Andrade EB, & Van Boven L. (2010) Feelings not forgone: underestimating affective reactions to what does not happen. Psychological science, 21(5), 706-11. PMID: 20483850
- February 10, 2011
- 11:32 AM
- 1,891 views
Too Many Men to Choose From…
by APS Daily Observations in Daily Observations
Can’t find the right guy or girl for Valentine’s Day? Research suggests you might be looking in the wrong place. A study published in Psychological Science found that people who ... Read more »
Lenton AP, & Francesconi M. (2010) How humans cognitively manage an abundance of mate options. Psychological science, 21(4), 528-33. PMID: 20424095
- February 9, 2011
- 12:16 PM
- 2,453 views
Mate Choice: when Mr Right isn't good enough
by GrrlScientist in GrrlScientist
Hypothesis: female birds in monogamous mating systems with incompatible partners have higher stress hormone levels and are slower to reproduce than those with compatible partners ... Read more »
Griffith, S., Pryke, S., & Buttemer, W. (2011) Constrained mate choice in social monogamy and the stress of having an unattractive partner. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2672
- February 9, 2011
- 11:29 AM
- 1,498 views
Mate Choice: when Mr Right isn't good enough
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
Hypothesis: female birds in monogamous mating systems with incompatible partners have higher stress hormone levels and are slower to reproduce than those with compatible partners... Read more »
Griffith, S., Pryke, S., & Buttemer, W. (2011) Constrained mate choice in social monogamy and the stress of having an unattractive partner. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2672
- July 30, 2010
- 06:04 PM
- 1,093 views
Fish Market: Competition gets clients better treatment from cleaner fish
by Matt Soniak in mattsoniak.com
Game theory models based on repeated interactions between two individuals have often been the framework for understanding cooperative interactions in humans, but these models rarely apply in nature. Non-human animals, after all, rarely find themselves in situations like the “prisoner’s dilemma.”
Instead, partner choice and competition are emerging as the framework for understanding cooperation in the [...]... Read more »
Adam, T. (2010) Competition encourages cooperation: client fish receive higher-quality service when cleaner fish compete. Animal Behaviour, 79(6), 1183-1189. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.023
- April 23, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 2,185 views
Parents Key to Targeting Childhood Obesity
by Dr. Arya Sharma in Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
A new study by Rebecca Golley and colleagues from, Adelaide, Australia, just released online in Obesity Reviews, confirms the importance of parental involvement in weight management of children at risk for excess weight.... Read more »
Golley RK, Hendrie GA, Slater A, & Corsini N. (2010) Interventions that involve parents to improve children's weight-related nutrition intake and activity patterns - what nutrition and activity targets and behaviour change techniques are associated with intervention effectiveness?. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. PMID: 20406416
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