The files contain the raw behavioural data reported in the paper. Following pretraining on food collection from the magazine and lever pressing on fixed ratio schedules, rats were divided into three groups. Master rats were trained on a random ratio (RR)-20 schedule, while another group was yoked to the responding of individual master rats on a regulated probability interval (RPI) schedule. A third group of rats was first trained using an RR1-10 schedule, followed by a random interval (RI) schedule yoked to have the same interreinforcement interval as the master rat.

The .xlsx spreadsheet shows the behavioural data (lever pressing) and relevant calculations for yoking, described in more detail in the metadata.