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> not reliably replicated since then

My understanding tis that the studies were replicated in rats, cats and humans.

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657838/

> Despite the limitations of their study, the findings of Yerkes and Dodson were subsequently replicated in cats (Dodson, 1915), rats (Broadhurst, 1957; Telegdy and Cohen 1971) and people (Dickman, 2002; Bregman and McAllister 1982; Anderson, 1994), and became part of the lexicon of the field of psychology as the “Yerkes-Dodson Law” (Young, 1936; Eysenk, 1955).




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