Effect of response effort on the reward value of distinctively flavored food pellets

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 2001, Pages 1031-1034

  Armus, Harvard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 0035380440     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.88.3.1031-1034     Document Type: Article

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