| Journal: | Psychology & neuroscience |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000323024 |
| ISSN: | 1983-3288 |
| Authors: | Maximino, Caio1 Brito, Thiago Marques de2 Gouveia-Junior, Amauri1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal do Para, Centro de Ciencias Biologicas, Belem, Para. Brasil 2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Psicologia e Educacao, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Volumen: | 3 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 117-123 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | In experimental psychopathology, construct validity is usually enhanced by addressing theories from other fields in its nomological network. In the field of anxiety research, this construct is related to antipredator behavior, conserved across phylogeny in its functions and neural basis, but not necessarily on its topography. Even though the relations between behavioral models of anxiety and statements from behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology are commonly made in anxiety research, these are rarely tested, at least explicitly. However, in order to increase construct validity in experimental anxiety, testing predictions from those theories is highly desirable. This article discusses these questions, suggesting a few ways in which behavioral ecological and evolutionary hypotheses of anxiety-like behavior may be tested |
| Disciplines: | Psicología, Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia |
| Keyword: | Psicología experimental, Validez de constructo, Ansiedad, Modelos animales, Evolución, Psicopatología |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
