Watch and Learn: Vicarious Threat Learning across Human Development
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Watch and Learn: Vicarious Threat Learning across Human Development. / Skversky-Blocq, Yael; Haaker, Jan; Shechner, Tomer.
in: BRAIN SCI, Jahrgang 11, Nr. 10, 1345, 13.10.2021.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Review › Forschung
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T1 - Watch and Learn: Vicarious Threat Learning across Human Development
AU - Skversky-Blocq, Yael
AU - Haaker, Jan
AU - Shechner, Tomer
PY - 2021/10/13
Y1 - 2021/10/13
N2 - Vicarious threat learning is an important pathway in learning about safety and danger in the environment and is therefore critical for survival. It involves learning by observing another person's (the demonstrator) fearful responses to threat and begins as early as infancy. The review discusses the literature on vicarious threat learning and infers how this learning pathway may evolve over human development. We begin by discussing the methods currently being used to study observational threat learning in the laboratory. Next, we focus on the social factors influencing vicarious threat learning; this is followed by a review of vicarious threat learning among children and adolescents. Finally, we examine the neural mechanisms underpinning vicarious threat learning across human development. To conclude, we encourage future research directions that will help elucidate how vicarious threat learning emerges and how it relates to the development of normative fear and pathological anxiety.
AB - Vicarious threat learning is an important pathway in learning about safety and danger in the environment and is therefore critical for survival. It involves learning by observing another person's (the demonstrator) fearful responses to threat and begins as early as infancy. The review discusses the literature on vicarious threat learning and infers how this learning pathway may evolve over human development. We begin by discussing the methods currently being used to study observational threat learning in the laboratory. Next, we focus on the social factors influencing vicarious threat learning; this is followed by a review of vicarious threat learning among children and adolescents. Finally, we examine the neural mechanisms underpinning vicarious threat learning across human development. To conclude, we encourage future research directions that will help elucidate how vicarious threat learning emerges and how it relates to the development of normative fear and pathological anxiety.
U2 - 10.3390/brainsci11101345
DO - 10.3390/brainsci11101345
M3 - SCORING: Review article
C2 - 34679409
VL - 11
JO - BRAIN SCI
JF - BRAIN SCI
SN - 2076-3425
IS - 10
M1 - 1345
ER -
