Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...

Your recent editorial, “Primate research faces extinction,” makes two points: that the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata, may be an endangered species, and that its use for research purposes by ...

Japanese macaques play about in Launceston's City Park. Picture: City of Launceston “We know the Launceston community cares very much about the welfare of the City Park monkeys,” Launceston ...

Research on Japanese macaques indicates that self-scratching, a response linked to negative emotions, predicts pessimistic judgment bias, where monkeys avoid ambiguous choices after scratching.