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Seventy-five nonkiller male rats were divided into two groups, 38 animals receiving 3 mg/kg reserpine and the other 37 receiving saline. Fifty percent of the reserpine-treated animals showed mouse killing, whereas none of the other animals did so. Mouse-kill responses were already exhibited within 32 h after treatment, while the animals were still heavily sedated.
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Bermond, B., Van De Poll, N.E. & Van Dis, H. Reserpine induction of mouse killing in nonkiller rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 8, 49–50 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337072
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