Humans and great apes are highly social species, and encounter conspecifics throughout
their daily lives. During social interactions, they exchange information about their emotional …

Simple Summary Assessing animal welfare has proven to be a challenging task with
important consequences for their management. In the last few years, infrared thermography …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

The aim of this review is to discuss recent arguments and findings in the comparative study
of empathy. Based on a multidisciplinary approach including psychology and ethology, we …

For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other
individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary …

Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels)
of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by …

Emotional contagion, the emotional state‐matching of an individual with another, seems to
be crucial for many social species. In recent years evidence on emotional contagion in …

Communicating emotions to conspecifics (emotion expression) allows the regulation of
social interactions (eg approach and avoidance). Moreover, when emotions are transmitted …

The acute stress response can be considered the primary evolutionary adaptation to
maximise fitness in the face of unpredictable environmental challenges. However, the …

Cardiac measures such as heart rate measurements are important indicators of both
physiological and psychological states. However, despite their extraordinary potential, their …