Motivational trade-offs as evidence for sentience in bees: a critique
• Signal detection model by which animals trade off reward to avoid pain was built. • Negative interaction effects differentiate behavioural and motivational trade-offs. • Reanalysis of previous bee research reveals no evidence of a negative interaction. • Stronger evidence of the presence of pain and sentience in bees must be obtained.
Authors
- Vivek Nityananda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2878-2425)
- Jenny C. A. Read (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9029-5185)
Institutions
- Newcastle University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Animal Behaviour
- Published
- 2025-11-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123389
- Primary Topic
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00