Recommended housing conditions and test procedures can interact to obscure a significant experimental effect

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 651-656

  Lyte, Mark ^a,d   Opitz, Noel ^a   Gobbler, Lisa E ^b   Gaykema, Ronald P ^b   Bruce Overmier, J ^c  

^a MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646401379     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192736     Document Type: Article

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