TABLE 1.
List of tests (presented in order of testing) and measures incorporated into the unified behavioral scores, which behavioral trait they are probing and the direction of influence.
| Test | Measure | Score contribution | Influence |
| Direct social interaction (Age 4 weeks) | - Exploration time | Sociability | Excluded |
| - Time following host | +ve | ||
| - Time being followed | +ve | ||
| - Time sniffing host | +ve | ||
| - Time self-grooming | −ve | ||
| - Time attacking host | +ve | ||
| - Time being attacked | +ve | ||
| - Time immobile | −ve | ||
| Social odor discrimination (Age 8 weeks) | - Increase in frequency of visits to novel social odor | Sociability | +ve |
| - Increase in time spent sniffing novel social odor | +ve | ||
| Social propinquity (Age 9 – 12 weeks) | - Latency to first share | Sociability | −ve |
| - Time vacant | −ve | ||
| - Duration of double occupancy | +ve | ||
| Elevated zero maze (Age 12 – 13 weeks) | - Crosses into open | Anxiety | −ve |
| - Time in open | −ve | ||
| - Latency to enter open | +ve | ||
| Light/dark box (Age 18 – 20 weeks) | - Crosses into light | Anxiety | −ve |
| - Time in light | −ve | ||
| - Latency to enter light | +ve | ||
| 3-chamber test (Age 20 – 22 weeks) | - Crosses into empty | Sociability | −ve |
| - Crosses into occupied | +ve | ||
| - Time in empty | −ve | ||
| - Time in occupied | +ve | ||
| - Latency to enter occupied | −ve | ||
| - Mean time in occupied | +ve | ||
| Fecal corticosterone metabolites (FCMs) (Age 22 weeks) | - Change in FCM levels under stressed conditions | Anxiety/Stress | +ve |