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The Rats Are Telling You To Give Your Younger Brother a Noogie
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
1:08:00 PM EDT
Hearing City Lights -- Monica Schroeder
No, really. Turns out horseplay -- the sort that ends up someone's mom getting annoyed -- may be useful:
In an article published in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, Sergio and Vivian Pellis of the University of Lethbridge reviewed multiple studies involving animals, and found a link between rough and tumble play and social competence.
For example, adult rats deprived of peer interaction, (and thus rough and tumble play), reveal an inability to comprehend the hierarchy of social structures. In the rat kingdom, when a young male attempts to establish residency in a colony, he is promptly targeted for attack by the dominant male rat. Rats that have been reared with peers quickly learn to remain crouched and motionless in such an instance in order to avoid the dominant male's attention. Play deprived rats, on the other hand, continue to scurry about which ultimately invites further serious attacks.
My older brother wasn't in the house when I was growing up, so I missed out on some of that horseplay. But I assure you my sister more than made up for this. And now I hardly ever get attacked by the head rat! It's good when things work out like this.
Experience a lot of horseplay at the hands of siblings while growing up? Gotten over it yet?
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1:08:00 PM EDT
Hearing City Lights -- Monica Schroeder
The Rats Are Telling You To Give Your Younger Brother a Noogie
No, really. Turns out horseplay -- the sort that ends up someone's mom getting annoyed -- may be useful:
In an article published in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, Sergio and Vivian Pellis of the University of Lethbridge reviewed multiple studies involving animals, and found a link between rough and tumble play and social competence.
For example, adult rats deprived of peer interaction, (and thus rough and tumble play), reveal an inability to comprehend the hierarchy of social structures. In the rat kingdom, when a young male attempts to establish residency in a colony, he is promptly targeted for attack by the dominant male rat. Rats that have been reared with peers quickly learn to remain crouched and motionless in such an instance in order to avoid the dominant male's attention. Play deprived rats, on the other hand, continue to scurry about which ultimately invites further serious attacks.
My older brother wasn't in the house when I was growing up, so I missed out on some of that horseplay. But I assure you my sister more than made up for this. And now I hardly ever get attacked by the head rat! It's good when things work out like this.
Experience a lot of horseplay at the hands of siblings while growing up? Gotten over it yet?
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Stopped by to say hi (had an AOL Journal until the November '05 exodus). Wow, it seems so quiet. Hope you are well.
3/21/07 6:42 PM
be well,
Dawn