The purpose of the present experiment was to clarify the individuals as an appropriate "control" in research of social interactions in animals. As it has been established for the C57BL/6J mouse strain, the best control animals are individually housed for 5 days males in contrast to males placed with females or with other males in groups of 3-10 mice. Such male mice were less anxious and had high exploratory and motor activities in the elevated plus-maze, open-field, forced swimming and exploratory-activity tests.

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