The Effect of foreign language in fear acquisition

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  • dc.contributor.author García Palacios, Azucena
  • dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-
  • dc.contributor.author Castilla, Diana
  • dc.contributor.author del Río, Eva
  • dc.contributor.author Casaponsa, Aina
  • dc.contributor.author Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
  • dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-04T08:37:59Z
  • dc.date.available 2019-07-04T08:37:59Z
  • dc.date.issued 2018
  • dc.description.abstract Emotions are at the core of human nature. There is evidence that emotional reactivity in foreign languages compared to native languages is reduced. We explore whether this emotional distance could modulate fear conditioning, an essential mechanism for the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. A group of participants was verbally informed (either in a foreign or in a native language) that two different stimuli could be either cueing the potential presence of a threat stimulus or its absence. We registered pupil size and electrodermal activity and calculated the difference in psychophysiological responses to conditioned and to unconditioned stimuli. Our findings provided evidence that verbal conditioning processes are affected by language context in this paradigm. We report the first experimental evidence regarding how the use of a foreign language may reduce fear conditioning. This observation opens the avenue to the potential use of a foreign language in clinical contexts.
  • dc.description.sponsorship This research has been partially funded by grants PSI2015-65689-P and SEV-2015-0490 from the Spanish Government and AThEME-613465 from the European Union.
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  • dc.identifier.citation García-Palacios A, Costa A, Castilla D, Del Río E, Casaponsa A, Duñabeitia JA. The Effect of foreign language in fear acquisition. Sci Rep. 2018;8:1157. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19352-8
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19352-8
  • dc.identifier.issn 2045-2322
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/41931
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Nature Research
  • dc.relation.ispartof Scientific Reports. 2018;8:1157.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/PSI2015-65689-P
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465
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  • dc.title The Effect of foreign language in fear acquisition
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