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A taste-aversion paradigm was utilized to demonstrate the aversiveness of intraperitoneal injections of alcohol. When injections followed immediately the ingestion of an originally preferred flavor, the extent of subsequent aversion to that flavor varied as a function of dosage (1.2 g alcohol/kg >0.8 g/kg >0.4 g/kg >0.0 g/kg). Delayed injections of 1.2 g/kg, however, did not result in significant aversion. Significant aversiveness was also demonstrated in a second experiment which utilized a “blind-injection” technique at the 1.2 g/kg dose level.
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This research was supported by Training Grant MH 12640-02 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Grant MH 23607-01 from the National Institutes of Health.
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Eckardt, M.J., Skurdal, A.J. & Brown, J.S. Conditioned taste aversion produced by low doses of alcohol. Psychobiology 2, 89–92 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332999
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332999