{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Lampe JF"],"funding":["Swiss National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["e0224282"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6812795"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(10)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Social play is associated with the experience of positive emotions in higher vertebrates and may be used as a measure of animal welfare. Altering motivation to play (e.g., through short-term social isolation) can temporarily affect play levels between familiar individuals, a process which may involve emotional contagion. This study investigated how forming groups based on known differences in the personality trait \"playfulness\" (i.e., the longer-term propensity of an individual to actively play from adolescence to early adulthood) affects social play. Seventy-six adolescent male Lister Hooded rats underwent a Play-in-Pairs test assessing their playfulness, ranked as high (H), intermediate (I) or low (L). At seven weeks of age, rats were resorted into homogenous groups of similar (LLL, III,"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["Play like me: Similarity in playfulness promotes social play."],"pmcid":["PMC6812795"],"funding_grant_id":["31003A_144088"],"pubmed_authors":["Lampe JF","Wurbel H","Melotti L","Burman O","Ruchti S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Play like me: Similarity in playfulness promotes social play.","description":"Social play is associated with the experience of positive emotions in higher vertebrates and may be used as a measure of animal welfare. Altering motivation to play (e.g., through short-term social isolation) can temporarily affect play levels between familiar individuals, a process which may involve emotional contagion. This study investigated how forming groups based on known differences in the personality trait \"playfulness\" (i.e., the longer-term propensity of an individual to actively play from adolescence to early adulthood) affects social play. Seventy-six adolescent male Lister Hooded rats underwent a Play-in-Pairs test assessing their playfulness, ranked as high (H), intermediate (I) or low (L). At seven weeks of age, rats were resorted into homogenous groups of similar (LLL, III,","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019","modification":"2025-04-19T04:03:43.439Z","creation":"2019-11-09T08:01:17Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6812795","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31648250"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0224282"]}}