Acute anxiety and social inference: An experimental manipulation with 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation

This study investigated the effects of state anxiety, induced via 7.5% CO2 inhalation, on learning social evaluation. Healthy volunteers (n = 48; 50% female) undertook two inhalations (medical air and 7.5% CO2, counterbalanced) whilst learning social rules (self-liked, self-disliked, other-liked, and other-disliked) in an instrumental social evaluation learning task.

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Creator(s) Marcus Munafo, Katherine Button
Funder Medical Research Council
Contributor(s) Lucy Karwatowska, Daphne Kounali, Angela Attwood
Publication date 17 May 2016
Language eng
Publisher University of Bristol
Licence Non-Commercial Government Licence for public sector information
DOI 10.5523/bris.1wc6gtbaujq5p1i56fz2vqdmq4
Citation Marcus Munafo, Katherine Button (2016): Acute anxiety and social inference: An experimental manipulation with 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation. https://doi.org/10.5523/bris.1wc6gtbaujq5p1i56fz2vqdmq4
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