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Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors

Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors

Published on: January 25, 2018

Advancing preference testing in humans and animals.

Dana Pfefferle^1,2, Steven R Talbot³, Pia Kahnau⁴

¹Welfare and Cognition Group, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.

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|June 6, 2025

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Summary

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This study introduces a new method using multiple binary comparisons to scale preferences, not just rank them. This approach efficiently quantifies the relative value of options for animals, optimizing welfare assessments.

Keywords:

Binary choice Human Mice Preference Ranking Rating Rhesus macaque Scaling Welfare

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Area of Science:

Behavioral science
Animal welfare
Quantitative psychology

Background:

Preference testing ranks options but doesn't show preference strength.
Simultaneous presentation of options causes mutual influence, increasing with more options.
Existing methods fail to reveal the relative strengths of preference or worth value.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a method for scaling preferences using multiple binary comparisons.
To quantitatively assess the relative value of options presented to animals.
To optimize preference testing for applications like animal welfare assessment.

Main Methods:

Utilized multiple binary choice tests to scale preferences among many options.
Analyzed human image preference data with known valence scores for validation.

Developed an approach to incorporate additional option choices into existing rank orders via simulations.

Introduced consensus error and intransitivity ratio for assessing scaled ranking confidence.

Main Results:

Demonstrated that multiple binary comparisons can scale preferences, revealing worth value.
Successfully applied the approach to assess valence in mice and rhesus macaques.
Showed that simulations can reduce the number of animal experiments needed.
Developed quality measures to assess and improve scaled ranking confidence.

Conclusions:

The novel approach enables efficient and quantitative assessment of relative option values in animals.
This method optimizes preference testing, particularly for welfare assessment.
The developed software, an R package named "simsalRbim", is publicly available.