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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 41, 1989 - Issue 2
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Relative time in dangerous and safe places influences one-way avoidance learning in the rat

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Pages 181-199 | Received 13 Oct 1988, Published online: 29 May 2007

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