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Norbert Sachser is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany, where their research spans multiple fields related to animal behavior and welfare. Their scholarly output encompasses contributions to veterinary science, psychology, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on small animals, social psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work addresses main topics including animal behavior and welfare studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, stress responses and cortisol, animal behavior and reproduction, primate behavior and ecology, animal testing and alternatives, as well as meta-analysis and systematic reviews.

Recent publications by Norbert Sachser include:

  • "Improving reproducibility in animal research by splitting the study population into several 'mini-experiments'" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?" (2022, PLoS Biology)
  • "Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior" (2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • "Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice" (2022, Behavioral Ecology)
  • "The Effects of Different Feeding Routines on Welfare in Laboratory Mice" (2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science)

Norbert Sachser has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Sylvia Kaiser, S. Helene Richter, Rupert Palme, Vanessa Tabea von Kortzfleisch, and Viktoria Siewert, reflecting active interdisciplinary and cooperative research engagements.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals, reflecting specialization and domain expertise in particular outlets: Animal Behaviour, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Hormones and Behavior, Scientific Reports, and PLoS Biology.

In addition to journal articles, Norbert Sachser has contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, which includes the work titled Much Like Us (2022).

Best Publications

  • Effects of sex and time of day on metabolism and excretion of corticosterone in urine and feces of mice.

    Chadi Touma;Norbert Sachser;Erich Möstl;Rupert Palme

  • Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults

    Melanie L. Glocker;Daniel D. Langleben;Kosha Ruparel;James W. Loughead

  • Emergence of Individuality in Genetically Identical Mice

    Julia Freund;Andreas Markus Brandmaier;Lars Lewejohann;Imke Kirste

  • Social buffering of the stress response: diversity, mechanisms, and functions.

    Michael B. Hennessy;Sylvia Kaiser;Norbert Sachser

  • Analyzing corticosterone metabolites in fecal samples of mice: a noninvasive technique to monitor stress hormones

    Chadi Touma;Rupert Palme;Norbert Sachser

  • Baby schema modulates the brain reward system in nulliparous women

    Melanie L. Glocker;Daniel D. Langleben;Daniel D. Langleben;Kosha Ruparel;James W. Loughead

  • Social relationships and the management of stress

    Norbert Sachser;Matthias Dürschlag;Daniela Hirzel

  • Effects of different forms of environmental enrichment on behavioral, endocrinological, and immunological parameters in male mice.

    Vera Marashi;Angelika Barnekow;Edith Ossendorf;Norbert Sachser

  • The behavioral endocrinology of domestication: A comparison between the domestic guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) and its wild ancestor, the cavy (Cavia aperea).

    Christine Künzl;Norbert Sachser

  • The effects of prenatal social stress on behaviour: mechanisms and function

    Sylvia Kaiser;Norbert Sachser

  • Behavioural profiles are shaped by social experience: when, how and why

    Norbert Sachser;Sylvia Kaiser;Michael B. Hennessy

  • Attachment and bonding: A new synthesis.

    C. Sue Carter;Lieselotte Ahnert;Klaus E. Grossmann;Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

  • Environmental enrichment enhances cellular plasticity in transgenic mice with Alzheimer-like pathology

    Arne Herring;Oliver Ambrée;Manuel Tomm;Henrik Habermann

  • Adaptive modulation of behavioural profiles by social stress during early phases of life and adolescence.

    Norbert Sachser;Michael B. Hennessy;Sylvia Kaiser

  • Role of a neuronal small non-messenger RNA: behavioural alterations in BC1 RNA-deleted mice

    L. Lewejohann;B.V. Skryabin;N. Sachser;C. Prehn

  • Environmental bias? Effects of housing conditions, laboratory environment and experimenter on behavioral tests.

    L. Lewejohann;C. Reinhard;A. Schrewe;J. Brandewiede

  • Is a wild mammal kept and reared in captivity still a wild animal

    Christine Künzl;Sylvia Kaiser;Edda Meier;Norbert Sachser

  • SOCIAL SYSTEM AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF WILD GUINEA PIGS (CAVIA APEREA) IN A NATURAL POPULATION

    Matthias Asher;Elisabeth Spinelli de Oliveira;Norbert Sachser

  • Improving reproducibility in animal research by splitting the study population into several ‘mini-experiments’

    Vanessa Tabea von Kortzfleisch;Natasha A. Karp;Rupert Palme;Sylvia Kaiser

  • Effect of Population Heterogenization on the Reproducibility of Mouse Behavior: A Multi-Laboratory Study

    S. Helene Richter;S. Helene Richter;Joseph P. Garner;Benjamin Zipser;Lars Lewejohann

  • The Guinea Pig

    Sylvia Kaiser;Christine Krüger;Norbert Sachser

Frequent Co-Authors

Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Michael B. Hennessy
Michael B. Hennessy Wright State University
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
James Loughead
James Loughead University of Pennsylvania
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg
Jürgen Brosius
Jürgen Brosius University of Münster
Caroline Müller
Caroline Müller Bielefeld University
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis

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