Citation

Licata A, Taylor S, Berman M, Cranston J. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 1993; 45(3): 549-552.

Affiliation

University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8332615

Abstract

Thirty male undergraduates received either a placebo, low dose (1 mg/kg), or high dose (2 mg/kg) of orally administered cocaine. Subjects were then given the opportunity to administer electric shocks to an increasingly aggressive fictitious opponent during a competitive reaction-time task. Aggression was defined as the intensity of shock the subject was willing to set for his adversary. The results of this study indicate that subjects in the high-dose cocaine condition reacted more aggressively than placebo subjects irrespective of level of provocation.

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