Shared safety abolishes the recovery of learned threat

Abstract

1Humans, like other social animals, learn about threats and safety in the environment through 2 social cues. Yet, the processes that contribute to the efficacy of social safety learning during 3 threat transmission remain unknown. Here, we developed an experimental dyadic model 4 during which live pairs of participants underwent an associative threat learning and extinction 5 procedure followed by a threat recovery test. In three separate social groups, we manipulated