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  1. How 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity

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  2. The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'

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  3. The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'

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  4. The Mouse Utopia Experiments

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  5. Universe 25: The Disturbing Mouse Utopia

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  6. What can a mouse utopia teach us about socialism and welfare?

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  1. Infamous Universe 25 'Rodent Utopia' Experiment Is Not a Sign ...

    Many people have used John Calhoun's "rodent utopia" experiments as scientific evidence for "social decay" in humans.

  2. What are current thoughts on John B. Calhoun's "mouse utopia ...

    What are current thoughts on John B. Calhoun's "mouse utopia" experiments? I recently watched a video about Calhoun's "universe 25" experiment wherein he placed a population of mice in an environment with an abundance of food and nesting materials.

  3. This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak Predictions for ...

    Follow-up experiments by other researchers, which looked at human subjects, found that crowded conditions didn’t necessarily lead to negative outcomes like stress, aggression or discomfort.

  4. Behavioral sink - Wikipedia

    The implications of the experiment are controversial. Psychologist Jonathan Freedman's experiment recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on human behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness, and general unpleasantness. He declared to ...

  5. Universe 25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment That Turned Into ...

    As well as this, the experiment design has been criticized for creating not an overpopulation problem, but rather a scenario where the more aggressive mice were able to control the territory...

  6. Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? - Science History Institute

    John Calhoun crouching inside Universe 25, his famous mouse-behavior experiment, February 1970. Officially, the colony was called the Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice. Unofficially, it was called mouse heaven. Biologist John Calhoun built the colony at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland in 1968.

  7. Universe 25 Experiment | TS Digest | The Scientist

    Universe 25 was one long-term experiment in a series of mouse studies. The entire research series involved Calhoun’s constructed Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice , and each universe examined separate mouse populations and conditions.

  8. Mouse Utopia: Were the results ever replicated in other ...

    I recently learned about John Calhoun's mouse Utopia, and despite the numerous trials he did with the rats; was the experiment results ever obtained in other similar experiments?

  9. The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist — and His Rodent Dystopia

    Even if mice were taken from Universe 25 and placed into another mouse apartment block with a much lower density of residents, Calhoun explained, they still showed these aberrant behaviors.

  10. The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’

    He gave his claimed discoveries catchy names—the mice who forgot how to mate were “the beautiful ones”’ rats who crowded around water bottles were “social drinkers”; the overall ...