Conditioned social dominance threat
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Conditioned social dominance threat : observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning. / Haaker, Jan; Molapour, Tanaz; Olsson, Andreas.
in: SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR, Jahrgang 11, Nr. 10, 10.2016, S. 1627-37.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Conditioned social dominance threat
T2 - observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning
AU - Haaker, Jan
AU - Molapour, Tanaz
AU - Olsson, Andreas
N1 - © The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - Social groups are organized along dominance hierarchies, which determine how we respond to threats posed by dominant and subordinate others. The persuasive impact of these dominance threats on mental and physical well-being has been well described but it is unknown how dominance rank of others bias our experience and learning in the first place. We introduce a model of conditioned social dominance threat in humans, where the presence of a dominant other is paired with an aversive event. Participants first learned about the dominance rank of others by observing their dyadic confrontations. During subsequent fear learning, the dominant and subordinate others were equally predictive of an aversive consequence (mild electric shock) to the participant. In three separate experiments, we show that participants' eye-blink startle responses and amygdala reactivity adaptively tracked dominance of others during observation of confrontation. Importantly, during fear learning dominant vs subordinate others elicited stronger and more persistent learned threat responses as measured by physiological arousal and amygdala activity. Our results characterize the neural basis of learning through observing conflicts between others, and how this affects subsequent learning through direct, personal experiences.
AB - Social groups are organized along dominance hierarchies, which determine how we respond to threats posed by dominant and subordinate others. The persuasive impact of these dominance threats on mental and physical well-being has been well described but it is unknown how dominance rank of others bias our experience and learning in the first place. We introduce a model of conditioned social dominance threat in humans, where the presence of a dominant other is paired with an aversive event. Participants first learned about the dominance rank of others by observing their dyadic confrontations. During subsequent fear learning, the dominant and subordinate others were equally predictive of an aversive consequence (mild electric shock) to the participant. In three separate experiments, we show that participants' eye-blink startle responses and amygdala reactivity adaptively tracked dominance of others during observation of confrontation. Importantly, during fear learning dominant vs subordinate others elicited stronger and more persistent learned threat responses as measured by physiological arousal and amygdala activity. Our results characterize the neural basis of learning through observing conflicts between others, and how this affects subsequent learning through direct, personal experiences.
KW - Adult
KW - Amygdala
KW - Conditioning (Psychology)
KW - Electroshock
KW - Fear
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW - Male
KW - Photic Stimulation
KW - Reflex, Startle
KW - Social Dominance
KW - Social Learning
KW - Young Adult
KW - Journal Article
KW - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
U2 - 10.1093/scan/nsw074
DO - 10.1093/scan/nsw074
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 27217107
VL - 11
SP - 1627
EP - 1637
JO - SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR
JF - SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR
SN - 1749-5016
IS - 10
ER -