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Individual Differences in Bait Shyness: Effects of Drug Dose and Measurement Technique

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The conclusion that bait shyness in rats is characterized by a paucity of individual differences was reexamined through manipulation of toxic-dose magnitudes and measurement techniques. Individual differences in acquisition of a cyclophosophamide-induced aversion to saccharin flavored water were recorded even with relatively insensitive single-bottle measurement procedures. However, single-bottle extinction was quite rapid and dose independent. In contrast, sensitive 2-bottle measurement procedures revealed dose-dependent individual differences in both aversion acquisition and resistance to extinction. Results are discussed in relationship to aversion therapy treatment of alcholism.

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This paper was presented at the 1972 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, St. Louis.

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Elkins, R.L. Individual Differences in Bait Shyness: Effects of Drug Dose and Measurement Technique. Psychol Rec 23, 349–358 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394178

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