Social facilitation in animals is when the performance of a behaviour by an animal increases the probability of other animals also engaging in that behaviour...

Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. That is, people do better on...

Social learning refers to learning that is facilitated by observation of, or interaction with, another animal or its products. Social learning has been...

Evaluation apprehension, however, is only key in human social facilitation and is not observed in other animals. Mélon, Jean (1996), Notes on the History...

though homosexual behavior is best known from social species. Scientists perceive homosexual behavior in animals to different degrees. A 2019 paper states...

monogamous pairs of animals are not always sexually exclusive. Many animals that form pairs to mate and raise offspring regularly engage in sexual activities...

ethology—examining animals as individuals—whereas, in the future, ethologists would need to concentrate on the behaviour of social groups of animals and the social structure...

less likely to be polyandrous. The adaptive significance of polyandry in animals is controversial. Polyandry has direct benefits for females allowing fertilization...

sometimes called contagious behavior and has strong components of social facilitation, imitation, and group coordination. It is usually considered to occur...

twenty thousand street vendors in London dealt with live animals. The popularity of animals also developed a demand for animal goods such as accessories and...

Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers)...

more efficient and streamlined, namely: trade facilitation and electronic business. Trade facilitation involves the simplification of trade procedures...

Imitation in animals is a study in the field of social learning where learning behavior is observed in animals specifically how animals learn and adapt...

Animal faith is the study of animal behaviours that suggest proto-religious faith. Whether non-human animals can have religious faith is dependent on a...

by animals that preyed on other animals drawn to human camps. Those animals established a commensal relationship with humans in which the animals benefited...

true in the case of social stresses, like social defeat (Bjorkqvist, 2001; Rygula et alli, 2005; de Jong et alli, 2005). In animal studies, animals housed...

Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's bodies or appearances. A related term, allogrooming...

contributions to social psychology is the mere-exposure effect. Zajonc also conducted research in the areas of social facilitation, and theories of emotion...

why people or lower animals initiate a behavior at a particular time. It also involves the study of why humans and lower animals continue or terminate...

of life when animals were closely involved with humans. The study tested blood levels and noticed a rise in oxytocin in humans and animals which participated;...

Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. The goal of this animal-assisted...

social work management programmes, to prepare students for the management of social and human service organizations, in addition to classical social work...

Animal culture can be defined as the ability of non-human animals to learn and transmit behaviors through processes of social or cultural learning. Culture...

achievements, such as killing animals for entertainment; cruelty to animals sometimes encompasses inflicting harm or suffering as an end in itself, referred to...

that is formed between animals of different species. Numerous cases of interspecies friendships among wild and domesticated animals have been reported and...

control over the animals that live within their environment. Domesticated animals are trained and cared for by humans. Humans can develop social and emotional...

task requirement, either social facilitation or social interference will impact the outcome of the task. If social facilitation occurs, the task will have...

behavior in animals Homosexuality and psychology List of animals displaying homosexual behavior Poiani, Aldo; Dixson, A. F. (2010). Animal Homosexuality:...

selective breeding of domestic animals, is being used to breed back recently extinct animals in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that...

that would be advantageous in some species can be understood by looking at social groups. Animals that have large, complex social groups benefit from spontaneous...