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Laboratory rats avoided the arm of a T-maze in which other rats had previously experienced frustrative nonreward, i.e., nonreward in the presence of cues associated with reward, thus supporting the proposition that frustrated rats excrete an odor mildly aversive to conspecifics. They displayed indifference toward arms in which rats had been rewarded or merely placed without treatment.
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Collerain, I., Ludvigson, H.W. Aversion of conspecific odor of frustrative nonreward in rats. Psychon Sci 27, 54–56 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328888
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