For better or worse: Effect of upcoming reinforcer type on rats' lever pressing for low-concentration sucrose reinforcers

Psychological Record

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 629-644

  Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a   Stout, Jason E ^b   Davis, Carolyn S ^b   Melville, Cam L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

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