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    Verbal instruction abolishes fear conditioned to racial out-group faces

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    Authors
    Mallan, K.
    Sax, J.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Mallan, K. and Sax, J. and Lipp, O. 2009. Verbal instruction abolishes fear conditioned to racial out-group faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45 (6): pp. 1303-1307.
    Source Title
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.001
    ISSN
    0022-1031
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14675
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Previous research has shown resistance to extinction of fear conditioned to racial out-group faces, suggesting that these stimuli may be subject to prepared fear learning. The current study replicated and extended previous research by using a different racial out-group, and testing the prediction that prepared fear learning is unaffected by verbal instructions. Four groups of Caucasian participants were trained with male in-group (Caucasian) or out-group (Chinese) faces as conditional stimuli; one paired with an electro-tactile shock (CS+) and one presented alone (CS-). Before extinction, half the participants were instructed that no more shocks would be presented. Fear conditioning, indexed by larger electrodermal responses to, and blink startle modulation during the CS+, occurred during acquisition in all groups. Resistance to extinction of fear learning was found only in the racial out-group, no instruction condition. Fear conditioned to a racial out-group face was reduced following verbal instructions, contrary to predictions for the nature of prepared fear learning. Crown Copyright © 2009.

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