10.18453/rosdok_id00002791 Goursot, Charlotte Charlotte Goursot http://d-nb.info/gnd/1220388556 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2885-2988 Universität Rostock 2020 570 Life science 590 Zoological sciences 630 Agriculture 2020 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002791 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002791-1 The study of laterality (i.e. asymmetries of brain and behaviour) is a potential non-invasive approach to gain insights into the common neural mechanisms underpinning both personality and emotions in animals. The hypotheses underlying this thesis state that the left (respectively the right) hemisphere regulates approach or positive (respectively avoidance or negative) emotions. The goal of this thesis was to study lateralized motor functions (Study 1) and their associations with personality indices (Study 2), and the effect of monocular viewing on emotional reactions (Study 3) in pigs.