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One hundred rats (Rattus norvegicus) received aversion training (beverage-LiCl pairings) with wine and distilled spirits conditioned stimuli (CSs) whose contents were high or low in congeners. Following training, each CS group received 8 days access to a 5% ethanol solution or to distilled water and then were tested for aversion to the original beverage CS. Groups that had received distilled water access between training and testing showed more persistent aversion effects to the wine CSs as a class than to the distilled spirits CSs. For each beverage class, aversion was greater to the CS with the higher content of congeners. Compared with distilled water access groups, groups that had received the 5% ethanol solution between training and testing showed reduced aversion effects to the beverage high in congener contents in each beverage class and no change in aversion to the low-congener beverage.
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The data presented in this paper were reported at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, FL, 1986.The author thanks A. B. Dyer for critically reading an earlier draft of this paper.
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Franchina, J.J. Interaction of ethanol and congener contents in aversion conditioning to alcoholic beverages in rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 25, 9–12 (1987). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330062
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330062