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Science 1 July 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3418, pp. 42 - 43
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3418.42
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Effects of Ethyl Alcohol on Avoidance Behavior

G. S. Reynolds 1 and P. van Sommers 1

1 Psychological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Three albino rats, trained to avoid electric shock, were stomach-loaded with from 1 to 5 ml of 32-percent aqueous solution of ethyl alcohol prior to the experimental session. Small doses produced some increases in responserates and a consistent decline in shocks received. Larger doses produced progressive uncoordination, accompanied by lower response rates and an increase in shocks received.

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