Neuroscience
5 years ago

Negative associations impact fear learning, shaping emotional responses and evaluations.

Psychophysiology
Evaluative conditioning affects the subsequent acquisition of differential fear conditioning as indexed by electrodermal responding and stimulus evaluations
Ottmar V. Lipp, Camilla C. Luck, Alana C. Muir

Paper Summary

The study looked at how our feelings towards things can affect how we learn to fear them. They found that when we associate negative feelings with something, we learn to fear it faster. This means that our emotions can influence how we learn to be afraid of things.

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