Social isolation and dominance behavior.

Effects of intraperitoneal injection of ethanol on ethanol ingestion of C57BL mice

“…Rosen & Hart (1963) reported that one socially reared subspecies of deer mice, "bairdii," dominated isolate-reared deer mice of the same subspecies. Uyeno & White (1967) found, on the contrary, that isolate-reared male Wistar rats dominated their socially reared littermates under "survival motivation" conditions. The following experiment was designed to assess the effect of rearing conditions on male Sprague-Dawley rats.…”

Dominance behavior in socially isolated rats

“…Two factors common between Uyeno & White's (1967) and the present study, but different from most others. is the confining nature of the apparatus and the factors entering into establishing dominance.…”

“…Rosen (1961) found no significant differences between socially reared and isolated rats in competition for water. In a recent study Uyeno & White (1967) demonstrated that isolated animals were significantly dominant over socially reared Ss in competition tests made with survival motivation. They suggested that animals reared in isolation are handicapped in competition situations by initial naivety in a highly novel testing environment.…”

Behavioral components of shock-induced aggression in ground squirrels (Citellus tridecemlineatus)

“…A major issue in this regard is the extent to which the experimental context disrupts social mechanisms while evoking reflexive stress reactions that are more "defensive" than "aggressive" (Uyeno & White, 1967;King, 1966;Scott, 1966). Reynierse (1971), for instance, has suggested that elicited aggression findings may be more appropriately related to a predator-prey context than to intraspecific conflict.…”