What is play fighting and what is it good for?

Play matters: the surprising relationship between juvenile playfulness and anxiety in later life

(2016) S. Helene Richter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social play in juvenile hamsters alters dendritic morphology in the medial prefrontal cortex and attenuates effects of social stress in adulthood.

(2016) Cody A. Burleson et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Adolescent social rejection alters pain processing in a CB1 receptor dependent manner

(2016) Peggy Schneider et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Unveiling the “secret” of play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Asymmetry and signals.

(2016) Giada Cordoni et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The neurobiology of social play and its rewarding value in rats

(2016) Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Adverse Social Experiences in Adolescent Rats Result in Enduring Effects on Social Competence, Pain Sensitivity and Endocannabinoid Signaling

(2016) Peggy Schneider et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Evolutionary models for the retention of adult–adult social play in primates: The roles of diet and other factors associated with resource acquisition

(2015) Brian C O’Meara et al.   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Are 50-khz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? III. The effects of devocalization on play with unfamiliar partners as juveniles and as adults

(2015) Theresa M. Kisko et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Down but not out: Supine postures as facilitators of play in domestic dogs

(2015) Kerri Norman et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

(2015) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Are agonistic behavior patterns signals or combat tactics — Or does it matter? Targets as organizing principles of fighting

(2015) S.M. Pellis et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Reunion behavior after social separation is associated with enhanced HPA recovery in young marmoset monkeys

(2015) Jack H. Taylor et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in regulating interanimal coordination of movements.

(2014) Brett T. Himmler et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Gestational cortisol and social play shape development of marmosets' HPA functioning and behavioral responses to stressors

(2014) Aaryn C. Mustoe et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Domestication and diversification: A comparative analysis of the play fighting of the Brown Norway, Sprague-Dawley, and Wistar laboratory strains of (Rattus norvegicus).

(2014) Stephanie M. Himmler et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Adolescent peer-rejection persistently alters pain perception and CB1 receptor expression in female rats

(2013) Peggy Schneider et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

How domestication modulates play behavior: A comparative analysis between wild rats and a laboratory strain of Rattus norvegicus.

(2013) Brett T. Himmler et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Social Play Behavior in Adolescent Rats is Mediated by Functional Activity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Striatum

(2013) Linda WM van Kerkhof et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Early Social Experience Is Critical for the Development of Cognitive Control and Dopamine Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex Function

(2013) Petra J J Baarendse et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Juvenile play experience primes neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex to be more responsive to later experiences

(2013) B.T. Himmler et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

(2013) D. T. Blumstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures

(2012) Francesca Ciani et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

To whom the play signal is directed: A study of headshaking in black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).

(2011) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The use of the bared-teeth display during play fighting in Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana): Sometimes it is all about oneself.

(2011) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

In search of the neurobiological substrates for social playfulness in mammalian brains

(2011) Stephen M. Siviy et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Ontogenetic Trajectories of Chimpanzee Social Play: Similarities with Humans

(2011) Giada Cordoni et al.   PLoS One

Closing the circle between perceptions and behavior: A cybernetic view of behavior and its consequences for studying motivation and development

(2011) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Playing and fighting by piglets around weaning on farms, employing individual or group housing of lactating sows

(2010) Jitka Šilerová et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

(2010) Viviana Trezza et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the play fighting of rats.

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Head rotations in the play of Hanuman langurs (semnopithecus entellus): Description and analysis of function.

(2008) Milada Petrů et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY