The interplay of social group biases in social threat learning.

ABSTRACT: Learning from other individuals (e.g. social learning) is subjected to biases affecting whom to learn from. Consistent with research in animals, showing similarity-based learning biases and a general tendency to display pro-social responses to in-group individuals, we recently demonstrated that social learning of both fear and safety was enhanced when information was transmitted between same-race individuals. Here, we addressed how two different social group categories jointly affect the transmission of fears by investigating the interplay between racial and supporter group membership. We demonstrate that supporter group membership differentially influenced learning from a racial in-group vs. racial out-group individual. Thus, conditioned skin conductance responses in the same-race conditi

SUBMITTER: Golkar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550414 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature