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Investigating the mechanistic role of painful self-experience in emotional contagion: an effect of auto-conditioning?
J. Packheiser, E. Soyman, E. Paradiso…·C. Keysers
The paper investigates whether auto-conditioning, through auditory associations with pain squeaks, enhances emotional contagion in rodents, but finds no significant differences in fear responses across experimental groups.
DOI 10.1101/2022.06.27.497737