TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Fear acquisition and liking of out-group and in-group members: learning bias or attention?
JO  - Biological psychology
A1  - Koenig, Stephan
A1  - Nauroth, Peter
A1  - Lucke, Sara
A1  - Lachnit, Harald
A1  - Gollwitzer, Mario
A1  - Uengoer, Metin
SP  - 195
EP  - 206
VL  - 129
IS  - 
N2  - The present study explores the notion of an out-group fear learning bias that is characterized by a facilitated fear acquisition toward harm-doing out-group members. Participants were conditioned with two in-group and two out-group faces as conditioned stimuli. During acquisition, one in-group and one out-group face was paired with an aversive shock whereas the other in-group and out-group faces were presented without shock. Psychophysiological measures of fear conditioning (skin conductance and pupil size) and explicit and implicit liking exhibited an increased differential responding towards out-group faces compared to in-group faces on. However, the results did not clearly indicate that harm-doing out-group members were more readily associated with fear than harm-doing in-group members. In contrast, the out-group face not paired with shock decreased conditioned fear and disliking at least to the same extent that the shock-associated out-group face increased these measures. Based on these results, we suggest an account of the out-group fear learning bias that relates to an attentional bias to process in-group information.<br><br>Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier B.V.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0301-0511
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.08.060
ID  - ref1
ER  -