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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.

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@article{efb88e6c3a76421f94bdaf5b825a3bdf,
title = "Conditioned social dominance threat: observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Adult, Amygdala, Conditioning (Psychology), Electroshock, Fear, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Photic Stimulation, Reflex, Startle, Social Dominance, Social Learning, Young Adult, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't",
author = "Jan Haaker and Tanaz Molapour and Andreas Olsson",
note = "{\textcopyright} The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1093/scan/nsw074",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
pages = "1627--37",
journal = "SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR",
issn = "1749-5016",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
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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

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DO - 10.1093/scan/nsw074

M3 - SCORING: Journal article

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VL - 11

SP - 1627

EP - 1637

JO - SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR

JF - SOC COGN AFFECT NEUR

SN - 1749-5016

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