Empathy does not amplify vicarious threat learning.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103577
Abstract: Clinically significant fears and phobias can be acquired vicariously. Witnessing another person's defensive reactions to potentially dangerous objects and situations can instill conditioned threat responses in the observer. The present study investigated individual differences in… read more here.
Keywords: empathy amplify; amplify vicarious; threat; threat learning ... See more keywords
Initial evidence for pharmacological modulation of observational threat learning by the GABAergic, but not the noradrenergic system in humans.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103605
Abstract: Threat responses are often shaped by social information, such as observation of aversive outcomes for others. Yet, the neurochemistry regulating observational learning of threats is largely unknown. Here, we examined the impact of the GABAergic… read more here.
Keywords: system; evidence; observational threat; threat ... See more keywords
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101696
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Vicarious threat conditioning abnormalities are theorized to confer vulnerability to a wide range of emotional problems. We tested two different conceptual models of this non-specificity. First, hypersensitivity to socially conditioned danger cues… read more here.
Keywords: learning emotional; threat; threat learning; vicarious threat ... See more keywords
The neurobiology of safety and threat learning in infancy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.10.015
Abstract: What an animal needs to learn to survive is altered dramatically as they change from dependence on the parent for protection to independence and reliance on self-defense. This transition occurs in most altricial animals, but… read more here.
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Pavlovian threat learning shapes the kinematics of action
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1005656
Abstract: Prompt response to environmental threats is critical to survival. Previous research has revealed mechanisms underlying threat-conditioned physiological responses, but little is known about how threats shape action. Here we tested if threat learning shapes the… read more here.
Keywords: kinematics; learning shapes; threat learning; threat ... See more keywords
Computational modeling of threat learning reveals links with anxiety and neuroanatomy in humans
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.66169
Abstract: Influential theories implicate variations in the mechanisms supporting threat learning in the severity of anxiety symptoms. We use computational models of associative learning in conjunction with structural imaging to explicate links among the mechanisms underlying… read more here.
Keywords: anxiety severity; threat learning; computational modeling; threat ... See more keywords