Development of personality tests to use in the field, stable over time and across situations, and linked to horses’ show jumping performance

Authors: Léa Lansade, Pascaline Philippon, Lucile Hervé, Marianne Vidament

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, fearfulness, reactivity, rideability, tactile sensitivity, temperament

2016

A few days of social separation affects yearling horses’ response to emotional reactivity tests and enhances learning performance

Authors: Léa Lansade, Claire Neveux, Frédéric Levy

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: fearfulness, habituation, instrumental, isolation, memory, training

2012

Cognitive sciences to relate ear postures to emotions in sheep

Authors: Boissy, A.; Aubert, A.; Désiré, L.; Greiveldinger, L.; Delval, E.; Veissier, I.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, cognition, ear postures, emotions, sheep

2011

Animals’ emotions: studies in sheep using appraisal theories

Authors: I. Veissier, A. Boissy, L. Désiré, L. Greiveldinger

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, appraisal theories, ear postures, emotion, heart rate, sheep

2009

Emotional experience in sheep: Predictability of a sudden event lowers subsequent emotional responses

Authors: Lucile Greiveldinger, Isabelle Veissier, Alain Boissy

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, appraisal theories, cardiac activity, emotions, predictability, sheep, startle, suddenness

2007

Temperament in preweanling horses: Development of reactions to humans and novelty, and startle responses

Authors: L. Lansade, M. F. Bouissou, X. Boivin

Publication/Journal: Developmental Psychobiology

Keywords: approach/avoidance reactions, equus-caballus, fearfulness, foals, horses, novelty, ontogeny, reactions to humans, startle response, temperament

2007

Appraisal process in sheep (Ovis aries): Interactive effect of suddenness and unfamiliarity on cardiac and behavioral responses

Authors: Lara Désiré, Isabelle Veissier, Gérard Després, Eric Delval, Gilles Toporenko, Alain Boissy

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: behavior, cardiac activity, cognition, emotion, sheep

2006

On the Way to Assess Emotions in Animals: Do Lambs (Ovis aries) Evaluate an Event Through Its Suddenness, Novelty, or Unpredictability?

Authors: L. Désiré, I. Veissier, G. Després, A. Boissy

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: affect, animal behavior/physiology, animal behaviour/physiology, animals, domestic, electrocardiography, environment, exploratory behavior, exploratory behaviour, feeding behavior, feeding behaviour, female, heart rate/physiology, psychological theory, time factors, vagus nerve/physiology

2004

Emotions in farm animals- a new approach to animal welfare in applied ethology

Authors: L. Desire, A. Boissy, I. Veissier

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: cognition, emotion, farm-animal, welfare

2002