Acute Restraint Stress Alters Food-Foraging Behavior in Rats: Taking the Easier Way While Suffered.

•Acute restrain stress changes food foraging behavior in both social or nonsocial settings.•Acute restrain stress affects the social-based more than value-based food foraging decision-making behavior.•Acute restrain stress enhances Social agonistic, but not social interaction behavior.•The neuronal activation of ACC caused by acute restrain stress could be the reason of inhibited food foraging.