Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?

When a prolonged observation of groups of rats in a seminatural environment is used as testing procedure, different behavioral patterns are shown compared with what observed in a pair housed in a small cage. Males and females copulate simultaneously, they show a promiscuously and random copulatory p...

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Autores principales:	Xi Chu, Anders Ågmo
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Universidad de San Buenaventura 2016
Materias:	representative design seminatural environment sexual behavior social behavior rat Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:30bdc8f744d14b4e8b578d3e1dcad5c72021-11-25T02:21:45ZStudies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?10.21500/20112084.23392011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/30bdc8f744d14b4e8b578d3e1dcad5c72016-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/2339https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922When a prolonged observation of groups of rats in a seminatural environment is used as testing procedure, different behavioral patterns are shown compared with what observed in a pair housed in a small cage. Males and females copulate simultaneously, they show a promiscuously and random copulatory pattern. Females remain completely receptive from the first lordosis displayed in the period of behavioral estrus until the last. There is no reduction in paracopulatory behaviors and no increase in rejections towards the end of estrus. Female paracopulatory behavior and receptivity change in a most abrupt way at both initiation and termination of behavioral estrus. It appears that, in the seminatural environment, males copulate in bouts, and males do not pursue the females unless they are fully receptive. Non-sexual, social behavior including affiliative and nonaffiliative interaction among rats is rather unrelated to sexual activities in both sex.Xi ChuAnders ÅgmoUniversidad de San Buenaventuraarticlerepresentative designseminatural environmentsexual behaviorsocial behaviorratPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 9, Iss 2 (2016)
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description	When a prolonged observation of groups of rats in a seminatural environment is used as testing procedure, different behavioral patterns are shown compared with what observed in a pair housed in a small cage. Males and females copulate simultaneously, they show a promiscuously and random copulatory pattern. Females remain completely receptive from the first lordosis displayed in the period of behavioral estrus until the last. There is no reduction in paracopulatory behaviors and no increase in rejections towards the end of estrus. Female paracopulatory behavior and receptivity change in a most abrupt way at both initiation and termination of behavioral estrus. It appears that, in the seminatural environment, males copulate in bouts, and males do not pursue the females unless they are fully receptive. Non-sexual, social behavior including affiliative and nonaffiliative interaction among rats is rather unrelated to sexual activities in both sex.
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title	Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?
title_short	Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?
title_full	Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?
title_fullStr	Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?
title_full_unstemmed	Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?
title_sort	studies of sociosexual interactions in rats in an externally valid procedure: are they relevant for understanding human sexual behavior?
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Studies of Sociosexual Interactions in Rats in an Externally Valid Procedure: Are They Relevant for Understanding Human Sexual Behavior?

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