Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator’s racial group (Experiment 2)
Abstract
Social learning offers an efficient route through which humans and other animals learn about potential dangers in the environment. Such learning inherently relies on the transmission of social information and should imply selectivity in what to learn from whom. Here, we conducted two observational learning experiments to assess how humans learn about danger and safety from members (‘demonstrators') of an other social group than their own. We show that both fear and safety learning from a racial in-group demonstrator was more potent than learning from a racial out-group demonstrator.
Authors
Armita Golkar, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Vasco Castro, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Andreas Olsson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Year
2015
DOI of Publication
Is Version of
Where was the data collected?
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
How to Cite
Golkar, Armita; Castro, Vasco; Olsson, Andreas (2014). Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator’s racial group [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n9v18
Participant Information
Participant Age
Participant Gender
Experimental Group
[...] during observational extinction, participants watched a video depicting either the in- (White) or the out-group (Black) demonstrator acting calmly when exposed to presentations of both CSs
Stimuli
Drug Administration
NoConditioning Protocol
Instructions CS-US Contingencies
Number of Different US
US Modality
US Duration (ms)
Time Between CS and US Onset (ms)
Number of Different CS+
CS+ Duration (ms)
CS+ 1: Reinforcement Rate (%)
CS+ 2: Reinforcement Rate (%)
CS+ 3: Reinforcement Rate (%)
Number of Different CS-
CS- Duration (ms)
CS Modality
Data Collected During MRI
NoMeasures
skin conductance response
Amplitude of skin conductance response to stimulus.
State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| skin conductance response | Amplitude of skin conductance response to stimulus. | trialwise & untransformed |
| State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T) |