Rat Park Experiment

Rat Park Experiment

In the 1980s, an experimental Canadian psychologist named Bruce Alexander created Rat Park. It was a Rat Utopia that had food, balls, and wheels for certain male and female rats while the other rats were caged. He found that free rats almost always refused drugs (morphine), while rats in solitary confinement overdosed on a regular basis.

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