Crying With Laughter: Adapting the Tickling Protocol to Address Individual Differences Among Rats in Their Response to Playful Handling

Positive Welfare and the Like: Distinct Views and a Proposed Framework

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Ultrasonic vocalizations and individual differences in rats performing a Pavlovian conditioned approach task

(2020) Nivethini Sangarapillai et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Rat 50 kHz calls reflect graded tickling-induced positive emotion

(2020) Justyna K. Hinchcliffe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Odour conditioning of positive affective states: Rats can learn to associate an odour with being tickled

(2019) Vincent Bombail et al.   PLoS One

Relationships between play and responses to tickling in male juvenile rats

(2019) Tayla Hammond et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Behavioral and Cortical Correlates of Self-Suppression, Anticipation, and Ambivalence in Rat Tickling

(2019) Shimpei Ishiyama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

What Is so Positive about Positive Animal Welfare?—A Critical Review of the Literature

(2019) Alistair B. Lawrence et al.   Animals

Cacna1c haploinsufficiency leads to pro-social 50-kHz ultrasonic communication deficits in rats

(2018) Theresa M. Kisko et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Tickling, a Technique for Inducing Positive Affect When Handling Rats

(2018) Sylvie Cloutier et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Practical rat tickling: Determining an efficient and effective dosage of heterospecific play

(2018) Megan R. LaFollette et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Rat tickling: A systematic review of applications, outcomes, and moderators

(2017) Megan R. LaFollette et al.   PLoS One

Play and optimal welfare: Does play indicate the presence of positive affective states?

(2017) Jamie Ahloy-Dallaire et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Tickling

(2016) David A. Leavens et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Playful handling of laboratory rats is more beneficial when applied before than after routine injections

(2015) Sylvie Cloutier et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

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

Are 50-kHz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? II. Evidence from the effects of devocalization

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

Tickling increases dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in adolescent rats

(2013) Miyo Hori et al.   NEUROREPORT

Peering into the Dynamics of Social Interactions: Measuring Play Fighting in Rats

(2013) Brett T. Himmler et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Playful handling as social enrichment for individually- and group-housed laboratory rats

(2012) Sylvie Cloutier et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Selective breeding for 50kHz ultrasonic vocalization emission produces alterations in the ontogeny and regulation of rough-and-tumble play

(2012) E.S. Webber et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Maternal care associates with play dominance rank among adult female rats

(2012) Carine I. Parent et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

The influence of social subordinate housing on the withdrawal effects from progesterone and estradiol in male rats

(2012) Magnus Löfgren et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Laughing Rats Are Optimistic

(2012) Rafal Rygula et al.   PLoS One

Play behaviour in nonhuman animals and the animal welfare issue

(2009) Ana Flora Sarti Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

The effects of selective breeding for differential rates of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations on emotional behavior in rats

(2008) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression: Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration of playback..

(2008) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY