Experimental neuroses and group aggression.

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Cats were trained in an exptl. cage to lift lid of foodbox in response to given bell-light signals. Later they were subjected to barriers, and to painful shocks to induce motivational conflicts. Resultant conclusions are that hierarchies of dominance and submission are readily established. Thus, each individual cat tends to assume a pattern of overt aggression or of subordination to the more dominant role of another animal with which he is paired. The author contends these observations may be of significance to the individual and social psychology of human interrelationships.

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