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JOSEPH ROSEN, M.A.; JAN WEJTKO, B.A.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;7(2):77-81.

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In recent years there have been an increasing number of studies concerned with the effects of early experience on later behavior and development in animals. The relevant literature has been reviewed by several investigators.^{1,3,4,7,12,15} As Bovard and Newton⁴ have pointed out, part of the impetus for this type of research has had its origin in the Freudian hypothesis that early experiences are of critical significance in the genesis of personality structure. The thesis forwarded in this paper is that certain hypotheses regarding the effects of early experience on human behavior may be amenable to corroboration at the animalexperimental level. One type of early experience, the effects of which have been subject to minimal experimental investigations, is that concerned with the organism's prolonged living experience with the mother following its normal weaning period. Bovard and Newton⁴ have reported that albino rats . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TORONTO, CANADA

This investigation was carried out in the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

The senior author is now with the Division of Behavior Studies, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me.; the junior author is now with the Department of Psychology, Ontario Hospital, Kingston, Ont., Canada.

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Submitted for publication June 15, 1961.

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