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Aiding behavior vs. fear in the albino rat

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Fifty-eight albino rats were individually exposed to a second rat being shocked. The Ss did not exercise their option of pressing a bar which would have terminated the shock but rather exhibited clear signs of fear. The fear response persisted and bar pressing did not occur even when tape recorded rat squeaks were presented alone.

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  1. Agnes Scott College, USA

    George E. Rice Jr.

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Based upon a paper read at the Georgia Psychological Association, 1962.

This investigation was supported in part by PHS research grant M H 06690 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service.

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Rice, G.E. Aiding behavior vs. fear in the albino rat. Psychol Rec 14, 165–170 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393574

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