Schizotypal personality traits and the social learning of fear.

ABSTRACT: Schizotypy can be defined as a combination of traits qualitatively similar to those found in schizophrenia, but milder in their expression, that can be found in clinical and non-clinical populations. In this research, we explore, to our knowledge, for the first time, whether schizotypal personality traits may affect the acquisition of conditioned fear by social means only. Apart from being an essential capacity to ensure learning in safe environments, social fear learning shares important characteristics with direct fear acquisition, which also makes it a great candidate for developing successful extinction procedures. Undergraduate students (n = 72) performed a task of social fear learning. In this task, participants watched a video of a person that simulated to receive electric shocks (u

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Rodriguez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630166 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature