Modulating Aggression Through Experience

Fish Cognition and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 96-118

  Hsu, Yuying ^a   Earley, Ryan L ^b   Wolf, Larry L ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Asymmetrical winner and loser effects; Experience effects; Fighting decisions; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349152045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996058.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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