Hereditary and environmental aspects of dominant behavior in the albino rat.

Uyeno, Edward T.

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“…Candland & Bloomquist (1965) have reported low reliability in achieving a dominance order involving rats (Carworth CBE) jockeying for possession of reward in a situation which resembled the food-hole task devised by Uyeno (1960). However, other investigators have been able to derive a stable hierarchy involving inbred strains of mice and rats, respectively, by using the dominance tube, a task which forces an animal to push an opponent through a tube too narrow for either S to pass unhindered (Lindzey, Winston, & Manosevitz, 1961;Lindzey, Manosevitz, & Winston, 1966;Schum sky & Jones, 1966;Uyeno & White, 1967).…”

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Adaptation to the dominance tube

Wilson

1968

Psychon Sci

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Adaptation to the dominance tube

Wilson

1968

Psychon Sci

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“…Ss are started in the tube in such a way that they meet at the center, and the dominant S is the one that forces its opponent to retreat from the tube. On each trial E records theidentity of the dominant Sand the time of the trial.Hereagain, and in the food dominance test also, there were five consecutive daily trials.The food dominance apparatus and procedure as used with rats is described by Uyeno (1960). Briefly, it involves training hungry S to eat wet mash from a small aperture in the center of a closed arena.…”

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“…The food dominance apparatus and procedure as used with rats is described by Uyeno (1960). Briefly, it involves training hungry S to eat wet mash from a small aperture in the center of a closed arena.…”

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Social dominance in the mouse

1966

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Two inbred strains of mice were opposed in measures of tube-dominanc e, food-dominanc e, and aggression, using matched pairs of individual opponents. There were stable strain differences on all three measures, and Ss within strains were highly similar to each other in performance. Results on the food-dominance and aggression measures were concordant, while performance on the tube-dominance test was negatively related to the other two measures.While uncontrolled observation of social dominance in infrahuman animals has long been reported, there has been relatively little experimental study. In large part this has been due to the absence of sensitive and efficient measuring techniques. The present study was concerned with an examination ofarelativelynewmeasure, "tube-dominance," in relation to two other tests of social behavior. Thus, three different behavioral measures were employed: (a) a test in which hungry Ss must push against each other in a narrow tube in order to reach food, (b) a test opposing hungry Ss in an arena containing a food aperture large enough for only one S at a time to eat, (c) a test of spontaneous fighting behavior. All three tests are standardized,easytoadminister, and employ objective behavioral measures. Each measure is believed on the basis of previous research to possess at least minimally adequate psychometric properties, and has been shown to possess sensitivity to behavioral differences between inbred strains of mice.The tube-dominance test was shown in a previous study (Lindzey, Winston, & Manosevitz, 1961) to be unusually reliable and to result in very stable transitive relationships both between individual Ss within groups and between different inbred strains of mice. One means of adding to our understanding of the psychological significance of the tube-dominance measure is to observe its relation to other measures of social behavior. More specifically, in the present study we were concerned with (1) the possibility that the three tests employed might be viewed as measures of the same general trait; (2) to observe the extent to which the genetically homogeneous Ss within inbred strains would perform in the same way on these measures; and (3) to determine for each measure the stability in performance over repeated trials between individual sets of opponents. Method Twenty-six male Ss were employed, organized into 13 matched pairs that remained the same for all three phases of testing. One member of each pair was from strain A, the other from strain DBA/8. Pairs were matched on the basis of age. Both strains have been inbred for more than 30 generations of brother-sister mating. All Ss were weaned and housed with same-sex littermates at 23 days of age, individually housed in metal cages at approximately 42 days, and were 75-100 days of age at the beginning of the experiment.The aggression test is a measure of spontaneous fighting betwe"n pairs of mice. The present apparatus and testing procedure is a Psychon. Sci., 1966, Vol. 5 (11) modification of that described by Fredericson (1...

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“…From the information available, two rather broad generalizations may be drawn: (1) Innate differences in dominant-subordinate behavior have been found in rats (Barnett, 1963;Hall & Klein, 1942;Uyeno, 1960). (2) Social experiences may have a significant influence on the development of dominant-subordinate behavior (Barnett, 1963;Grant & Chance, 1958;Seitz, 1954).…”

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“…In this situation those animals of the fearless strain were found to be significantly more dominant, as determined by aggressive actions of one animal toward another, than were those of the timid strain. Uyeno (1960) undertook a study to investigate the relationship between dominant-subordinate behavior in parents and dominant-subordinate behavior in offsprin~. Using a food-competition situation, he found that those animals which had been previously identified as dominant in competition for food tended to produce offspring who were dominant in similar situations.…”

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Influence of successful and unsuccessful social experiences on dominant-subordinate behavior of the rat.

Monroe¹

1970

Developmental Psychology

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between successful and unsuccessful social experiences and dominant-subordinate behavior of the rat. Twelve 60-day-old subjects were used in the experiment. Six of the subjects were each housed with two 90-day-old animals, and six were each housed with two 30-day-old animals. These groups were placed on a feeding schedule involving a period of food competition for 30 days. At the age of 90 days the subjects were matched against each other in a dominance test box. The results of the dominance tests revealed that those subjects which had been unsuccessful in competition for food were dominant and those subjects which had been successful were subordinate. These findings were discussed in terms of several possible explanations. 1 This study is based upon a thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate College of Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in psychology, July 1967.

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Hereditary and environmental aspects of dominant behavior in the albino rat.

Cited by 35 publications

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Adaptation to the dominance tube

Adaptation to the dominance tube

Social dominance in the mouse

Influence of successful and unsuccessful social experiences on dominant-subordinate behavior of the rat.

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