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Why inflict pain instead of pleasure ?

From my experience experiments on animal subjects tend to focus on negative responses. Beside specifically testing negative agents, is there a logical reason for this approach ? Why not measure attraction instead of avoidance ? Do mice exhibit visible joyful facial expressions vs the grimacing this article describes ? It sounds silly, but couldn't we measure how much we delight the mice ?




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