Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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mates jintermaTe aggressionJ, by exposure of paired mates or females to unavoidable foot or tail shock tshockelicited aggressionJ, by arranging for an unfamiliar intruder to enter the nest area of a lactating female with her offspring ;maternal aggressionJ, by placing a lactating female for an animal marked with her urineJ into an established group of females or castrated mates, by giving the subject the opportunity to kill a locust or a cricket predatory aggressionJ, and by confining subjects in a narrow tube where they may bite a target suspended in front of them thus activating a telegraph key {instrumental aggressionJ. Thus even in the "simple" mouse, the tests used to generate aggression are so varied {and the responses generated so qualitatively differentJ, it is highly improbable that all measure the same motivation.
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has suggested that one can define a number of categories of behavior that all employ fighting anchor threat. These include the following: · Social conflict: generally intraspecific phenomena involving competition for a substrate {e.g., a mate, territory, social status, or foods, the possession of which increases the organism's relative fitness.
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