Learning factors in social facilitation and social inhibition in rats.

Holder, Elaine E.

doi:10.1037/h0045260

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“…Such facilitatory effects have been observed with feeding (Harlow, 1932) and with a variety of learning tasks (e.g. Angermeier et al, 1959;Holder, 1958). They have also been reported with responses to a novel stimulus (Simmel & McGee, 1966) and with locomotor activity (Lepley, 1937).…”

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Social Facilitation of Locomotion and Exploration in Rats

Hughes

1969

British J of Psychology

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Male white rats engaged in more locomotion and less defaecation and freezing in an open field when in the company of another male rat than when alone. They also exhibited proportionally more sniffling and less tooth grinding and chattering when in the same square of the aparatus as their partners than when in different squares. It was concluded that the presence of a second rat somehow reduced the aversive nature of the experimental environment.

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Social Facilitation of Locomotion and Exploration in Rats

Hughes

1969

British J of Psychology

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“…Studies have shown that rats will run to a food-baited platform faster when tested in the presence of a social partner signaling the availability of food than when tested alone (Holder, 1958). These effects cannot be explained by merely the presence of another rat, because rats run slower to a platform in the presence of a social partner signaling the absence of food (i.e., extinction).…”

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“…For instance, rats trained to associate one group of social partners with food, and another group of social partners with the absence of food, respond more rapidly when lever pressing produces social contact with the rats associated with food than those associated with the absence of food (Holder, 1958). In other words, establishing an association between food and a social partner increases the reinforcing strength of social contact with that partner.…”

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The effects of social contact on drug use: Behavioral mechanisms controlling drug intake.

Strickland¹,

Smith²

2014

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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The social environment plays a critical role in determining the likelihood that an individual will use drugs or will develop a drug use disorder. Recent evidence obtained from preclinical studies reveals that proximal social factors (i.e., those factors that are immediately present at the time of drug exposure) exert a particularly strong influence on both drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior. These studies are advancing our understanding of the role of the social environment in drug use by showing that the rewarding and reinforcing effects of drugs depend on (1) whether other individuals are immediately present and (2) whether those individuals are also using drugs. Furthermore, the preclinical literature examining the role of social learning in behavior maintained by nondrug reinforcers reveals a number of behavioral mechanisms by which social contact may influence drug use, as well as potential ways the social environment may be modified to prevent or reduce drug use. Additional research is needed to determine potential age and sex differences in the effects of social contact on drug use, to determine the generality of the current findings across different pharmacological classes of drugs, and to determine the role of social contact on drug intake during different transitional stages of drug use disorders; however, enough evidence now exists to begin implementing social interventions in clinical and at-risk populations.

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“…In learning studies with rats social facilitation has not been a factor in eliciting learned responses (Lepley, 1939) except in cases where the second rat in the situation serves as a discriminative stimulus for reward. In the latter case, social facilitation has been found in the amount of time it took for a rat to press a lever for food reward (Holder, 1958) and in the number of trials required to learn an escape response (Angermeier, Schaul, & James, 1959). On the other hand, on the basis of several earlier studies Munn (1950, p. 466) concludes that "social facilitation is clearly present in simple eating and drinking situations."…”

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Social facilitation of exploratory behavior in rats.

Simmel¹

1962

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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Learning factors in social facilitation and social inhibition in rats.

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Social Facilitation of Locomotion and Exploration in Rats

Social Facilitation of Locomotion and Exploration in Rats

The effects of social contact on drug use: Behavioral mechanisms controlling drug intake.

Social facilitation of exploratory behavior in rats.

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