Transmission of emotions from one individual to another has been shown in many animal species, other than humans.
Does emotional contagion occur also in fish? This is the question that our postdoctoral researcher Daniel Alberto Burbano Lombana, Dr. Simone Macrì from Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and our own Prof. Maurizio Porfiri tried to solve in their last paper, which has just been published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, special issue on Emotion Regulation and Processing.
Read the paper “Collective Emotional Contagion in Zebrafish” here.
Image credit: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.