Uncovering hidden prosocial behaviors underlying aggression motivation in mice and young children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animals exhibit a wide range of social behaviors, including positive actions that promote social cohesion and negative behaviors associated with asserting dominance. While these behaviors are often viewed as opposites, they can also exist independently or coexist in complex ways, necessitating further investigation into their interrelationships.

Results

To study the interplay between these two types of behaviors, we examined mouse social behaviors using resident-intruder assays and revealed a negative correlation between social aggression and prosocial allogrooming. Suppressing aggressive motivation through various manipulations, including social subordination, olfaction ablation, and inhibition of aggressive neural circuits, led to an increased display of allogro

SUBMITTER: Lee CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605964 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature