Effects of reactivity to dorsal stimulation and social role on aggressive behavior in laboratory rats

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Viken; John F. Knutson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 979 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(1983)9:4<287::aid-ab2480090403>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

Rats were selected on the basis of reactivity to dorsal tactile stimulation and then tested in a resident-intruder paradigm. While reactivity of residents did not influence the occurrence of agonistic behaviors or wounding of residents and intruders, reactivity of intruders did affect offensive and defensive patterns of interactions and the wounds sustained by residents and intruders. Subsequent to resident-intruder testing, rats were tested for shock-induced aggression. The pattern of the results and the results of additional experiments demonstrated that resident-intruder experience could affect subsequent shock-induced aggressive behavior.