Three studies were run to test the fear hypothesis of immobility reactions in chickens. The first experiment, as a replication of earlier work, found significantly enhanced immobility on the part of animals given preinduction electric shock. The second experiment showed that duration of immobility varied reliably as a function of the amount of shock. Experiment 3 demonstrated that a similar enhancement could be produced by brief preinduction exposure to a loud noise.
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