Social Pavlovian conditioning: Short- and long-term effects and the role of anxiety and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Today's stressors largely arise from social interactions rather than from physical threat. However, the dominant laboratory model of emotional learning relies on physical stimuli (e.g. electric shock) whereas adequate models of social conditioning are missing, possibly due to more subtle and multilayered biobehavioral responses to such stimuli. To fill this gap, we acquired a broad set of measures during conditioning to negative social unconditioned stimuli, also taking into account long-term maintenance of conditioning and inter-individual differences. Fifty-nine healthy participants underwent a classical conditioning task with videos of actors expressing disapproving (US-neg) or neutral (US-neu) statements. Static images of the corresponding actors with a neutral facial expression served

SUBMITTER: Wiggert N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390734 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature