Journal
BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0817
Keywords
social learning; fear; safety
Categories
Funding
- European Research Council [284366]
- European Research Council (ERC) [284366] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Social learning offers an efficient route through which humans and other animals learn about potential dangers in the environment. Such learning inherently relies on the transmission of social information and should imply selectivity in what to learn from whom. Here, we conducted two observational learning experiments to assess how humans learn about danger and safety from members ('demonstrators') of an other social group than their own. We show that both fear and safety learning from a racial in-group demonstrator was more potent than learning from a racial out-group demonstrator.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available