Influence of facial expressions on the classical conditioning of fear
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200084 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John T Lanzetta (Dartmouth College), Scott P Orr |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1081-1087 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/h0077713 |
| PMID | 7205549 |
| OpenAlex | W2025752993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 3 |
Previous research has demonstrated that particular facial expressions more readily acquire excitatory strength when paired with a congruent unconditioned stimulus than when paired with an incongruent outcome. The present study extends these findings on the excitatory and inhibitory role of facial expressions by demonstrating that particular facial expressions (fear and happy), when paired with a neutral cue (tone), can influence conditioning to the neutral conditioned stimulus (CS). It was found that subjects who had a fear expression paired with the neutral CS responded more to the fear expression than to the neutral CS, whereas subjects who had a happy expression paired with the neutral CS responded more to the neutral cue than to the happy expression. These findings strongly support predictions from "overshadowing" or "blocking" models of classical conditioning
Amygdala · Audiology · Blocking effect · Classical conditioning · Cognitive psychology · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Excitatory postsynaptic potential · Facial expression · Fear conditioning · Inhibitory postsynaptic potential · Measures of conditioned emotional response · Neutral stimulus · Stimulus (psychology) · Unconditioned stimulus · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Communication · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neuroscience · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2023 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |