Elevated levels of the stress hormone, corticosterone, cause ‘pessimistic’ judgment bias in broiler chickens

Abstract Pessimistic judgment biases, whereby humans or non-human animals interpret ambiguous information negatively, are hypothesised to be one of the suite of adaptive changes that comprise the vertebrate stress response. To test this hypothesis, we asked whether experimentally elevating levels of...

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Main Authors: Oluwaseun S. Iyasere, Andrew P. Beard, Jonathan H. Guy, Melissa Bateson
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/951409aafdb644b88c3ff7b1b0d815fe
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