Conditioned social dominance threat: Observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1627-1637

  Haaker, Jan ^a   Molapour, Tanaz ^a   Olsson, Andreas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear extinction; Learning bias; MPFC; Social conflict; Threat relevance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; STARTLE REFLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX, STARTLE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996553600     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw074     Document Type: Article

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