Minori Arahori   Yusuke Hori   Atsuko Saito   Hitomi Chijiiwa   Saho Takagi   Yuki Ito   Arii Watanabe   Miho Inoue-Murayama   Kazuo Fujita   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY BEHAVIOR-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH 11 109-112 2016年1月 [査読有り]
Polymorphisms of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been hypothesized to correlate with social behavior in humans and other mammals. We examined the relationships between owner-assessed personality and OXTR polymorphisms in cats, which have lo...
Maintaining an appropriate distance from others is important for establishing effective communication and good interpersonal relations. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder associated with social difficulties, and it is thus ...
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH 93 99-109 2015年4月 [査読有り][招待有り]
Parental behavior is important for the development of mammalian offspring. Research on the mechanisms underlying parental behavior, however, has been largely restricted to rodent models. As a consequence, although research on parent-infant relatio...
Humans have engaged in unique cooperative breeding insofar as multiple in-group members help mothers. Two psychological-proximate factors maintain such a breeding system-various individuals' interest in infants and mothers' positive reactions towa...
Teresa Romero   Marie Ito   Atsuko Saito   Toshikazu Hasegawa   
PLOS ONE 9(8) e105963 2014年8月 [査読有り]
On the basis of observational and experimental evidence, several authors have proposed that contagious yawn is linked to our capacity for empathy, thus presenting a powerful tool to explore the root of empathy in animal evolution. The evidence for...
This article reviews parental behavior and its endocrinological mechanisms in marmosets and tamarins, both cooperative breeders in the callitrichid family, and compares these findings with studies of macaque monkeys. The paper examines the similar...
親の養育態度と子の社会性の発達との関連は多くの先行研究で示されており、親の養育態度を定量的に測定することは発達研究において非常に重要である。本研究では,Robinson et al. (1995) の養育スタイル尺度をもとに、日本語版養育態度質問紙を作成し、内的一貫性を検討、因子構造を明らかにした。また、親を対象にした質問紙により測定された、子の向社会性、問題行動との間に予測された有意な相関関係がみられ、構成概念妥当性も確認された。