Stress and aversive behavior in non-human primates: A retrospective bibliography (1914–1974) indexed by type of primate, aversive event, and topical area

Abstract

A retrospective bibliography (1914–1974) of stress and aversive behavior in non-human primates is presented. Each of 582 citations is indexed for type of primate(s) studied, kind of aversive event(s), and topical area(s). The aversive events include air (pressurized and wind), alien species (human, human staring, and snake), aversive drugs, crowding, darkness, electrical stimulation of the brain, gravitational forces, hitting, isolation, looming, noise, nonreward (frustration), pinching, pricking, radiation, restraint, sandpaper, sensory deprivation, shock (electric), slapping, social defeat (induced experimentally), strobe light, tastes (foul), temperature extremes, threat of social separation, time-out from positive reinforcement, unavoidable aversive events, unpredictable stimulus changes, vertical chamber confinement, visual cliff, and water (rain). Index terms include traditional and specific topics such as fear, punishment, and complex schedules of negative reinforcement, topics subdivided within the areas of social behavior, ontogeny, perceptual processes, and psychopathology, and topics of special interest including space research, field research, research subjects, research instrumentation, shaping and training techniques, selected drugs (e.g., morphine), and cardiovascular or gastrointestinal correlates of stress. References whose primary interest were physiology or the study of drug effects were not included. In no case was a citation included if there was no recording of behavior.