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- Navarrete, CD, et al.
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Fear extinction to an out-group face: the role of target gender
- 2009
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Ingår i: Psychological science. - : SAGE Publications. - 1467-9280 .- 0956-7976. ; 20:2, s. 155-158
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conditioning studies on humans and other primates show that fear responses acquired toward danger-relevant stimuli, such as snakes, resist extinction, whereas responses toward danger-irrelevant stimuli, such as birds, are more readily extinguished. Similar evolved biases may extend to human groups, as recent research demonstrates that a conditioned fear response to faces of persons of a social out-group resists extinction, whereas fear toward a social in-group is more readily extinguished. Here, we provide an important extension to previous work by demonstrating that this fear-extinction bias occurs solely when the exemplars are male. These results underscore the importance of considering how gender of the target stimulus affects psychological and physiological responses to out-group threat.
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