"Affiliative behaviors" refer to actions or behaviors that help build and strengthen positive relationships or connections between individuals. These behaviors often involve cooperation, kindness, and building social bonds.
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«I was quite impressed that the frequently observed lemurs received
more affiliative behaviors, such as grooming, without adjusting their own social behavior,» she said.
Understanding the circuitry of
such affiliative behaviors may lead to improved treatments for social impairment in severe mental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder.
«Both dogs and cats were reported to demand more attention from their owners and / or
display affiliative behavior, as well as spend time seeking out the deceased pet's favorite spot,» noted the study article that appeared in Animals 2016, 6 (11).
There was selection for cats that were successful hunters and scavengers in built environment and for tameness and
affiliative behavior toward humans.
The established social bond — a complex social behavior — is characterized
by affiliative behaviors, copulation, and the selective preference toward the partner over a stranger (partner preference)(Gubernick, 1994).
Intention understanding was positively correlated
with affiliative behaviors, and negatively with antagonistic behaviors during the cooperation task.
«We found that lemurs who were frequently observed by others while solving the task to retrieve the food received
more affiliative behaviors than they did before they learned,» said Kulahci, who is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork in Ireland.
They tracked «
affiliative behaviors,» such as grooming, and compared those behaviors before and after lemurs learned to retrieve the grape.
Oxytocin and the neural mechanisms regulating social cognition and
affiliative behavior.
This is called
an affiliative behavior.
In addition, and as mentioned above, the social - functional model suggests that crying serves to elicit caretaking and
affiliative behaviors.