Successive negative contrast: An appropriate approach to measure affective state in dogs?

Successive negative contrast (SNC) is a decrease in response when animals unexpectedly face reward devaluation to levels below those of animals always receiving low-value rewards. SNC appears to be influenced by background affective states and has thus been proposed as a tool for assessing animal we...

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Published in:	Animal Welfare
Main Authors:	Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro, Parizad Baria-Unwalla, Ana Rita Cabrita, Ingrid Anna Olsson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2025-01-01
Subjects:	affective states animal welfare dogs incentive contrast reward devaluation successive negative contrast
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0962728625000296/type/journal_article