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Title
The effect of foreign language in fear acquisition
Date
2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
ISSN
2045-2322
Bibliographic citation
GARCÍA-PALACIOS, Azucena, et al. The effect of foreign language in fear acquisition. Scientific reports, 2018, vol. 8, núm.1, p.1157.
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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 ... [+]
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. [-]
Is part of
Scientific reports, 2018, vol. 8, núm. 1, p. 1157
Investigation project
We would like to thank Dr. Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido and his colleagues from The Department of English Studies at Jaume I University and Irma Mulet and her colleagues of the Language and Terminology Service at Jaume I University for providing access to the students that participated in this study. We would also like to thank all the participants for their valuable collaboration. 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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