Reward value of copulation without sex drive reduction.

Sheffield, Fred D.; Wulff, J.; Backer, Robert

doi:10.1037/h0060074

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“…Everitt and others have previously demonstrated that sex serves as a potent reinforcer in rats. Not only do male rats work to engage in copulation (Sheffield, Wulff, & Backer, 1955) or to gain access to a second-order stimulus associated with copulation (Everitt et al, 1989), but male and female rats also display mating-induced place preferences (Everitt, 1990;Oldenburger, Everitt, & de Jonge, 1992). Dopamine is released during mating (Mermelstein & Becker, 1995;Pfaus et al, 1995;Vathy & Etgen, 1989).…”

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Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

Wang¹,

Guo-zhong²,

Cascio³

et al. 1999

Behavioral Neuroscience

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This study examined the role of dopamine (DA) in partner preference (PP) formation in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). The nonspecific DA antagonist haloperidol blocked mating-induced PP, whereas the nonspecific DA agonist apomorphine induced PP without mating. The D2 antagonist eticlopride, but not the Dl antagonist SCH23390, blocked PP, whereas the D2 agonist quinpirole, but not the Dl agonist SKF38393, induced PP without mating. Injections of eticlopride before or immediately after mating, but not 24 hr after mating, impaired PP, indicating that DA's effects were not due to an interference with mating or sensory recognition. Finally, intracerebroventricular injections of eticlopride diminished PP. Together, these data suggest that mating-induced PP requires activation of D2 receptors and that social experience may activate dopaminergic pathways, with enduring effects on behavior.

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Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

Wang¹,

Guo-zhong²,

Cascio³

et al. 1999

Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…This is because the scores typically have been (1) provided by the experimenter's rather than the subject's responses, or (2) made available by responses that have consequences in addition to allowing access to a score (Hake, Vukelich, and Kaplan, 1973 pendent upon behavior has been an important method in social psychology for measuring the reinforcing aspects of social stimuli. Examples are imprinting stimuli (Peterson, 1960;Hoffman, Searle, Toffey, and Kozma, 1966), young offspring (Cross and Harlow, 1963), and sex stimuli (Sheffield, Wulff, and Backer, 1951). This same approach was followed by Hake et al (1973) in their attempt to measure scorechecking responses and the effects of another person upon them.…”

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EFFECTS OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND COACTOR SCORES UPON THE AUDIT RESPONSES THAT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE SCORES¹

Vukelich¹,

Hake²

1974

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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An audit response allows access to an existing score from a subject's own performance (self audit) or from his coactor's performance (coactor audit), A previous study found that social stimuli (coactor present) increased audits relative to a non-social (no coactor) condition. The increase, designated a social-stimulus effect, was found to be due more to the coactor's score than to his mere presence. This finding suggested that the difference between self and coactor scores might affect the size of the social-stimulus effect. In the present study, six pairs of human subjects matched-to-sample for points that were exchangeable for money. During a session, matching-to-sample problems were distributed so that a subject's score was ahead, behind, or about even with his coactor's score. The even condition produced the largest social-stimulus effects, i.e., the most audits that could not be attributed to nonsocial variables such as time or number of problems. The even condition may have produced the largest social-stimulus effects because it was the only condition where the major social reinforcer (being ahead) could be both present or absent and, consequently, the even condition was the only one where audits had a discriminative function with respect to the presence of the major social reinforcer.

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“…The methods used have inc1udedobstruction boxes (Moss, 1924;Warner, 1927;Jenkins, 1928;Stone, Barker, & Tomlin, 1935), mazes (Kagan, 1955;Whalen, 1961), straight alleys (Beach & Jordan, 1956a;Ware, 1968;Sheffield, Wulff, & Backer, 1951), wheel-turning (Denniston, 1954), and leverpressing (Schwartz, 1956). All of these studies had a common feature: the paradigm either ignored or prec1uded the temporal pattern of male rat copulatory behavior normally' observed when a receptive female is freely available.…”

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Copulatory behavior of male rats under an imposed operant requirement

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Reward value of copulation without sex drive reduction.

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Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

EFFECTS OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND COACTOR SCORES UPON THE AUDIT RESPONSES THAT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE SCORES¹

Copulatory behavior of male rats under an imposed operant requirement

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Reward value of copulation without sex drive reduction.

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Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

Dopamine D2 receptor-mediated regulation of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A mechanism for pair bonding?

EFFECTS OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND COACTOR SCORES UPON THE AUDIT RESPONSES THAT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE SCORES1

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EFFECTS OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND COACTOR SCORES UPON THE AUDIT RESPONSES THAT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE SCORES¹