Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-315253
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.31525

Shiban, Youssef ; Reichenberger, Jonas ; Neumann, Inga D. ; Mühlberger, Andreas

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Abstract

In human beings, experiments investigating fear conditioning with social stimuli are rare. The current study aims at translating an animal model for social fear conditioning (SFC) to a human sample using an operant SFC paradigm in virtual reality (VR). Forty participants actively (using a joystick) approached virtual male agents that served as conditioned stimuli (CS). During the acquisition ...