ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2017
Social Fear Learning: from Animal Models to Human Function.
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- Parent to Offspring Fear Transmission via Modeling in Early Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Individual differences in prosocial learning are represented in the hippocampal dorsal CA1.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beyond Fear Learning in Isolation: Integration of Social Dimensions into Aversive Learning.Current protocols · 2026Review
- Increased c-Fos expression in lateral habenula during social transmission of negative valence in prairie voles.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Empathy and prosocial behavior powered by orexin-driven theta oscillations.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- A machine learning approach to investigate the role of fear of pain, personal experience, and vicarious learning in dental anxiety.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- The lateralized LC-NAergic system distinguishes vicarious versus direct fear in mice.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Roles of mediodorsal thalamus in observational fear-related neural activity in mouse anterior cingulate cortex.Molecular brain · 2025Article
- Exploring rodent prosociality: A conceptual framework.Translational neuroscience · 2025Review
- Social context modulates active avoidance: Contributions of the anterior cingulate cortex in male and female rats.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Intracranial EEG signals disentangle multi-areal neural dynamics of vicarious pain perception.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Active avoidance recruits the anterior cingulate cortex regardless of social context in male and female rats.Research square · 2024Article
- How Is the Fear of War Impacting Italian Young Adults' Mental Health? The Mediating Role of Future Anxiety and Intolerance of Uncertainty.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- The social transmission of empathy relies on observational reinforcement learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Understanding Others' Distress Through Past Experiences: The Role of Memory Engram Cells in Observational Fear.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Mice Recognise Mice in Neighbouring Rearing Cages and Change Their Social Behaviour.Behavioural neurology · 2024Article
- Nucleus accumbens core single cell ensembles bidirectionally respond to experienced versus observed aversive events.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Brain-To-Brain Mechanism for Social Transmission of Threat Learning.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Learning about potential threats is critical for survival. Learned fear responses are acquired either through direct experiences or indirectly through social transmission. Social fear learning (SFL), also known as vicarious fear learning, is a paradigm successfully used for studying the transmission of threat information between individuals. Animal and human studies have begun to elucidate the behavioral, neural and molecular mechanisms of SFL. Recent research suggests that social learning mechanisms underlie a wide range of adaptive and maladaptive phenomena, from supporting flexible avoidance in dynamic environments to intergenerational transmission of trauma and anxiety disorders. This review discusses recent advances in SFL studies and their implications for basic, social and clinical sciences.
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