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Science 9 August 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3580, pp. 528 - 529
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3580.528-a
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Punishment and Shock Intensity

James B. Appel 1

1 Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven 11, Connecticut

The degree of suppression of on-going, food-motivated behavior induced by punishing electric shock was exponentially related to the intensity of the aversive stimulus. No evidence for recovery from these effects during punishment sessions was observed.


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