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Rats with continuous access to food and water increased their selection of a sodium saccharin solution following temporary withdrawal of the solution. In Experiment 1 this “saccharin elation effect” occurred at two different saccharin concentrations, but only when the subjects had continuous access to the saccharin solutions in the days before and after the withdrawal period. The more commonly used method of presenting the saccharin solutions for 1 h/day during the exposure periods produced negligible effects at both concentrations. In a second experiment, the magnitude of the saccharin elation effect was found to be a monotonically increasing function of the withdrawal period. Inconsistencies in the results of previous investigations of the saccharin elation effect seem to stem from the failure to use appropriate experimental parameters.
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Pinel, J.P.J., Rovner, L.I. Saccharin elation effect. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 9, 275–278 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336998
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