Inconsistency of early handling and its effect upon emotionality in the rat.
- 1 December 1961
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 54 (6) , 690-693
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045503
Abstract
Rats were subjected to 1 of 4 kinds of handling from 15 to 62 days of age. Tests of activity, timidity, etc. at the end of this period disclosed that unhandled controls were the most emotional, and gently handled rats were the least emotional. Rats that were consistently roughly handled, and rats that were petted and mistreated in a random order were near the middle of the range of emotionality, providing no evidence that inconsistent treatment produces the greatest emotional instability. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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