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Brown, G.E., Guthrie, R. & Blaes, P. Fear conditioning and extinction as a function of escape from black to white vs. escape from white to black. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 5, 450–452 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333296
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