Emotion Lab – Andreas Olsson's research group

2024

Espinosa, L., Nook, E., Asperholm, M., Collins T., Davidow J., Olsson, A. (2024). Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress, Cognition & Emotion, 1–14.

Acar K., Karagiannidou A., Olsson A., van Prooijen J.W., Balter L.J.T., Axelsson J., Ingvar M., Lebedev A.V., Petrovic P. (2024). Delusion-proneness predicts COVID-19 vaccination behavior. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Nov 25;15:1450429.

Pan, Y., Sequestro, M., Golkar, A., Olsson, A. (2024). Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses, Behav Res Ther, Dec;183:104641.

Čehajić-Clancy, S., Jamshed, N., Olsson, A., & Momčilović, A. (2024). From inspiration to restoration: Moral elevation as a catalyst for improving intergroup relations in contexts of conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, in press.

Vieira, B., J., & Olsson, A. (2024). The convergence between defence and care-based helping in mammals, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, TICS, 28(8):714-725.

Selbing, I., Sandberg, D., Olsson, A., Lindström, B., & Golkar, A. (2024). The Transfer of Social Threat Learning to Decision-Making is Robust to Extinction, Emotion, Oct;24(7):1689-1696.

Becker, N., Kühn, S., & Olsson, A. (2024). How Emotional Contexts Modulate Item Memory in Individuals with High and Low Negative Affect and Worry, Learning & Memory, May 13;31(4):a053891.

2023

Anxiety associated with perceived uncontrollable stress enhances expectations of environmental volatility and impairs reward learning.
Guitart-Masip M, Walsh A, Dayan P, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2023 Oct;13(1):18451

Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence that violent video games exert no negative effect on human empathy for pain and emotional reactivity to violence.
Lengersdorff LL, Wagner IC, Mittmann G, Sastre-Yagüe D, Lüttig A, Olsson A, Petrovic P, Lamm C
Elife 2023 Nov;12():

A Brain-To-Brain Mechanism for Social Transmission of Threat Learning.
Pan Y, Vinding MC, Zhang L, Lundqvist D, Olsson A
Adv Sci (Weinh) 2023 Aug;():e2304037

Reading Others’ Social Appraisals After Viewing an Aversive Film Online Impacts Mood But Not Intrusive Memories. Espinosa L, Singh L, Eimer T, Olsson A, Holmes EA. J Anxiety Disord 2023 Aug

Psychophysiological and computational correlates of enhanced Pavlovian threat conditioning to positive and negative emotional stimuli. Stussi Y, Pourtois G, Olsson,A, Sander D. Int J Psychophysiol 2023 June

Threaten and affirm: The role of ingroup moral exemplars for promoting prosocial intergroup behavior through affirming moral identity. Cehajic-Clancy S, Olsson, A. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries.
Azevedo F, ... Olsson A, ... Jangard S, ... Pärnamets P, ... Vieira JB, ... et al.
Sci Data 2023 May;10(1):272

Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning.
Bach DR, Sporrer J, Abend R, Beckers T, Dunsmoor JE, Fullana MA, Gamer M, Gee DG, Hamm A, Hartley CA, Herringa RJ, Jovanovic T, Kalisch R, Knight DC, Lissek S, Lonsdorf TB, Merz CJ, Milad M, Morriss J, Phelps EA, Pine DS, Olsson A, van Reekum CM, Schiller D
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023 May;148():105146

2022

The causal role of affect sharing in driving vicarious fear learning.
Müllner-Huber A, Anton-Boicuk L, Pronizius E, Lengersdorff L, Olsson A, Lamm C
PLoS One 2022 ;17(11):e0277793

Neural defensive circuits underlie helping under threat in humans.
Vieira JB, Olsson A
Elife 2022 Oct;11():

Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time.
Espinosa L, Bonsall MB, Becker N, Holmes EA, Olsson A
Behav Res Ther 2022 Oct;157():104161

Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning.
Pavlović T, Azevedo F, ... Olsson A, ..., Keudel O, ...
PNAS Nexus 2022 Jul;1(3):pgac093

COVID-19 conspiracy ideation is associated with the delusion proneness trait and resistance to update of beliefs.
Acar K, Horntvedt O, Cabrera A, Olsson A, Ingvar M, Lebedev AV, Petrovic P
Sci Rep 2022 Jun;12(1):10352

Psychological well-being is associated with prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of Swedish and Chinese samples.
Pan Y, Vieira JB, Pärnamets P, Jangard S, Cheng X, Zhang Y, Olsson A
Emotion 2022 Aug;():

Alcohol Use Disorder Displays Trait-Related Reductions in Prosocial Decision Making.
Jangard S, Lindström B, Khemiri L, Pärnamets P, Jayaram-Lindström N, Olsson A
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2022 Sep;7(9):925-934

Enhanced Instructed Fear Learning in Delusion-Proneness.
Louzolo A, Almeida R, Guitart-Masip M, Björnsdotter M, Lebedev A, Ingvar M, Olsson A, Petrovic P
Front Psychol 2022 ;13():786778

Does gender matter? The association between different digital media activities and adolescent well-being.
Svensson R, Johnson B, Olsson A
BMC Public Health 2022 Feb;22(1):273

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic.
Van Bavel JJ, Cichocka A, Capraro V, Sjåstad H, Nezlek JB, Pavlović T, Alfano M, ..., Olsson A, ..., Jangard S, ..., Pärnamets P, ..., Vieira JB, ...
Nat Commun 2022 Jan;13(1):517

Resistance to Extinction of Evaluative Fear Conditioning in Delusion Proneness
Louzolo A, Lebedev A, Björnsdotter M, Acar K, Ahrends C, Kringelbach M L, Ingvar M, Olsson A, Petrovic P
Schizophr Bull Open 2022 ;3(1):sgac033

2021

Model-based representational similarity analysis of blood-oxygen-level-dependent fMRI captures threat learning in social interactions.
Undeger I, Visser RM, Becker N, de Boer L, Golkar A, Olsson A
R Soc Open Sci 2021 Nov;8(11):202116

The Interpersonal Neuroscience of Social Learning.
Pan Y, Novembre G, Olsson A
Perspect Psychol Sci 2022 May;17(3):680-695

Observation of others' threat reactions recovers memories previously shaped by firsthand experiences.
Haaker J, Diaz-Mataix L, Guillazo-Blanch G, Stark SA, Kern L, LeDoux JE, Olsson A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021 Jul;118(30):

Psychedelic drug use and schizotypy in young adults.
Lebedev AV, Acar K, Garzón B, Almeida R, Råback J, Åberg A, Martinsson S, Olsson A, Louzolo A, Pärnamets P, Lövden M, Atlas L, Ingvar M, Petrovic P
Sci Rep 2021 Jul;11(1):15058

The face value of feedback: facial behaviour is shaped by goals and punishments during interaction with dynamic faces.
Yi J, Pärnamets P, Olsson A
R Soc Open Sci 2021 Jul;8(7):202159

2020

Social safety learning: Shared safety abolishes the recovery of learned threat.
Pan Y, Olsson A, Golkar A
Behav Res Ther 2020 Dec;135():103733

Observational learning of fear in real time procedure.
Szczepanik M, Kaźmierowska AM, Michałowski JM, Wypych M, Olsson A, Knapska E
Sci Rep 2020 Oct;10(1):16960

Enhanced social learning of threat in adults with autism.
Espinosa L, Lundin Kleberg J, Hofvander B, Berggren S, Bölte S, Olsson A
Mol Autism 2020 Sep;11(1):71

Integration of social cues and individual experiences during instrumental avoidance learning.
Pärnamets P, Olsson A
PLoS Comput Biol 2020 Sep;16(9):e1008163

Help or flight? Increased threat imminence promotes defensive helping in humans.
Vieira JB, Schellhaas S, Enström E, Olsson A
Proc Biol Sci 2020 Aug;287(1933):20201473

Neural Pattern Similarity Unveils the Integration of Social Information and Aversive Learning.
Undeger I, Visser RM, Olsson A
Cereb Cortex 2020 Sep;30(10):5410-5419

Acute anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with higher levels of everyday altruism.
Vieira JB, Pierzchajlo S, Jangard S, Marsh AA, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2022 Nov;12(1):18619

Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans.
Pärnamets P, Espinosa L, Olsson A
Proc Biol Sci 2020 May;287(1927):20192779

Intact Classical Fear Conditioning to Interpersonally Threatening Stimuli in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Hillmann K, Mancke F, Herpertz SC, Jungkunz M, Olsson A, Haaker J, Bertsch K
Psychopathology 2020 ;53(2):84-94

The neural and computational systems of social learning.
Olsson A, Knapska E, Lindström B
Nat Rev Neurosci 2020 Apr;21(4):197-212

Book chapter: N Lanbeck, D Garcia, C Amato, A Olsson, S Sikström. Implicit attitudes: Quantitative semantic misattribution procedure. In: Sikström & Garcia (Eds.), Statistical Semantics: Methods and Applications, Springer, 2020

Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning.
Stussi Y, Pourtois G, Olsson A, Sander D
Emotion 2021 Jun;21(4):742-756

2019

Anxious behaviour in a demonstrator affects observational learning.
Selbing I, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2019 Jun;9(1):9181

Social threat learning transfers to decision making in humans.
Lindström B, Golkar A, Jangard S, Tobler PN, Olsson A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019 Mar;116(10):4732-4737

2018

Social regulation of survival circuits through learning. Olsson A, FeldmanHall O, Haaker J, Hensler T. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2018 Dec; 24:161-167

Conference: Building and Dismantling Trust: From Group Learning to Character Judgments. Pärnamets P, Granwald T, Olsson A. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 2018

Book chapter: Olsson A, Spring V. The vicarious brain: Integrating empathy and emotional learning. In: Meyza & Knapska (Eds.), Neuronal correlates of empathy: From rodent to human, Academic Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780128093481.

A common neural network differentially mediates direct and social fear learning.
Lindström B, Haaker J, Olsson A
Neuroimage 2018 Feb;167():121-129

The role of a "common is moral" heuristic in the stability and change of moral norms.
Lindström B, Jangard S, Selbing I, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2018 Feb;147(2):228-242

2017

Beliefs about Others' Abilities Alter Learning from Observation.
Selbing I, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2017 Nov;7(1):16173

PhD Thesis: Selbing I. Learning from the behaviors and experiences of others.

The interplay of social group biases in social threat learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2017 Aug;7(1):7685

Social Fear Learning: from Animal Models to Human Function.
Debiec J, Olsson A
Trends Cogn Sci 2017 Jul;21(7):546-555

Assessment of social transmission of threats in humans using observational fear conditioning.
Haaker J, Golkar A, Selbing I, Olsson A
Nat Protoc 2017 Jul;12(7):1378-1386

Endogenous opioids regulate social threat learning in humans.
Haaker J, Yi J, Petrovic P, Olsson A
Nat Commun 2017 May;8():15495

Delusion-proneness displays comorbidity with traits of autistic-spectrum disorders and ADHD.
Louzolo A, Gustavsson P, Tigerström L, Ingvar M, Olsson A, Petrovic P
PLoS One 2017 ;12(5):e0177820

Book chapter: Olsson A, Undeger I. Evolved physiological reactions. In: Shackelford & Weekes-Shackelford, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer, Cham, 2017

Effects of 25 mg oxazepam on emotional mimicry and empathy for pain: a randomized controlled experiment.
Nilsonne G, Tamm S, Golkar A, Sörman K, Howner K, Kristiansson M, Olsson A, Ingvar M, Petrovic P
R Soc Open Sci 2017 Mar;4(3):160607

2016

PhD Thesis: Molapour T. The role of aversive learning in social interactions.

Conditioned social dominance threat: observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning.
Haaker J, Molapour T, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1627-37

Outline of a sensory-motor perspective on intrinsically moral agents. Balkenius C, Cañamero L, Pärnamets P, Johansson B, Butz MV, Olsson A. Adaptive Behavior. 2016 Oct;24(5):306-319.

Co-Evolution of Social Learning and Evolutionary Preparedness in Dangerous Environments.
Lindström B, Selbing I, Olsson A
PLoS One 2016 ;11(8):e0160245

Significant grey matter changes in a region of the orbitofrontal cortex in healthy participants predicts emotional dysregulation.
Petrovic P, Ekman CJ, Klahr J, Tigerström L, Rydén G, Johansson AG, Sellgren C, Golkar A, Olsson A, Öhman A, Ingvar M, Landén M
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Jul;11(7):1041-9

Aversive Learning and Trait Aggression Influence Retaliatory Behavior.
Molapour T, Lindström B, Olsson A
Front Psychol 2016 ;7():833

Neural signals of vicarious extinction learning.
Golkar A, Haaker J, Selbing I, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1541-9

Immunization against social fear learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2016 Jun;145(6):665-71

Vicarious Fear Learning Depends on Empathic Appraisals and Trait Empathy.
Olsson A, McMahon K, Papenberg G, Zaki J, Bolger N, Ochsner KN
Psychol Sci 2016 Jan;27(1):25-33

Testosterone and estrogen impact social evaluations and vicarious emotions: A double-blind placebo-controlled study.
Olsson A, Kopsida E, Sorjonen K, Savic I
Emotion 2016 Jun;16(4):515-23

Book chapter: Olsson A, Undeger I, Yi J. Emotional learning and regulation in social situations. In: Absher & Cloutier, (Eds.), Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character, Academic Press, 2016

2015

Neural correlates of biased social fear learning and interaction in an intergroup context.
Molapour T, Golkar A, Navarrete CD, Haaker J, Olsson A
Neuroimage 2015 Nov;121():171-83

A clash of values: Fear-relevant stimuli can enhance or corrupt adaptive behavior through competition between Pavlovian and instrumental valuation systems.
Lindström B, Golkar A, Olsson A
Emotion 2015 Oct;15(5):668-76

Mechanisms of social avoidance learning can explain the emergence of adaptive and arbitrary behavioral traditions in humans.
Lindström B, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2015 Jun;144(3):688-703

Neural and genetic markers of vulnerability to post-traumatic stress symptoms among survivors of the World Trade Center attacks.
Olsson A, Kross E, Nordberg SS, Weinberg A, Weber J, Schmer-Galunder S, Fossella J, Wager TD, Bonanno GA, Ochsner KN
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2015 Jun;10(6):863-8

BDNFval66met affects neural activation pattern during fear conditioning and 24 h delayed fear recall.
Lonsdorf TB, Golkar A, Lindström KM, Haaker J, Öhman A, Schalling M, Ingvar M
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2015 May;10(5):664-71

Spontaneous eye movements and trait empathy predict vicarious learning of fear.
Kleberg JL, Selbing I, Lundqvist D, Hofvander B, Olsson A
Int J Psychophysiol 2015 Dec;98(3 Pt 2):577-83

Learned fear to social out-group members are determined by ethnicity and prior exposure.
Golkar A, Björnstjerna M, Olsson A
Front Psychol 2015 ;6():123

Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator's racial group.
Golkar A, Castro V, Olsson A
Biol Lett 2015 Jan;11(1):20140817

A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events.
Hirst W, Phelps EA, Meksin R, Vaidya CJ, Johnson MK, Mitchell KJ, Buckner RL, Budson AE, Gabrieli JD, Lustig C, Mather M, Ochsner KN, Schacter D, Simons JS, Lyle KB, Cuc AF, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2015 Jun;144(3):604-23

2014

The Hidden Snake in the Grass: Superior Detection of Snakes in Challenging Attentional Conditions.
Soares SC, Lindström B, Esteves F, Ohman A
PLoS One 2014 ;9(12):e114724

Demonstrator skill modulates observational aversive learning.
Selbing I, Lindström B, Olsson A
Cognition 2014 Oct;133(1):128-39

The influence of work-related chronic stress on the regulation of emotion and on functional connectivity in the brain.
Golkar A, Johansson E, Kasahara M, Osika W, Perski A, Savic I
PLoS One 2014 ;9(9):e104550

A review on human reinstatement studies: an overview and methodological challenges.
Haaker J, Golkar A, Hermans D, Lonsdorf TB
Learn Mem 2014 Sep;21(9):424-40

PhD Thesis: Lindström B. Socially dependent avoidance learning: Mechanisms of adaptive behavior.

Racial bias shapes social reinforcement learning.
Lindström B, Selbing I, Molapour T, Olsson A
Psychol Sci 2014 Mar;25(3):711-9

Pre-2013

Other people as means to a safe end: vicarious extinction blocks the return of learned fear.
Golkar A, Selbing I, Flygare O, Ohman A, Olsson A
Psychol Sci 2013 Nov;24(11):2182-90

Cues of fatigue: effects of sleep deprivation on facial appearance.
Sundelin T, Lekander M, Kecklund G, Van Someren EJ, Olsson A, Axelsson J
Sleep 2013 Sep;36(9):1355-60

In Your Face: Risk of Punishment Enhances Cognitive Control and Error-Related Activity in the Corrugator Supercilii Muscle.
Lindström BR, Mattsson-Mårn IB, Golkar A, Olsson A
PLoS One 2013 ;8(6):e65692

Learning biases underlying individual differences in sensitivity to social rejection.
Olsson A, Carmona S, Downey G, Bolger N, Ochsner KN
Emotion 2013 Aug;13(4):616-21

Temporal properties of fear extinction--does time matter?
Golkar A, Bellander M, Öhman A
Behav Neurosci 2013 Feb;127(1):59-69

Book chapter: Olsson A. Empati ur ett neurovetenskapligt perspektiv [Empathy from a neuroscientific perspective]. In: Bohlin & Ekelund, (Ed.s), Empati, Studentlitteratur, 2013

Distinct contributions of the dorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex during emotion regulation.
Golkar A, Lonsdorf TB, Olsson A, Lindstrom KM, Berrebi J, Fransson P, Schalling M, Ingvar M, Öhman A
PLoS One 2012 ;7(11):e48107

Fear extinction in humans: effects of acquisition-extinction delay and masked stimulus presentations.
Golkar A, Öhman A
Biol Psychol 2012 Oct;91(2):292-301

Fear is readily associated with an out-group face in a minimal group context. Navarrete CD, McDonald MM, Asher BD, Kerr NL, Yokota K, Olsson A, Sidanius J. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2012 Sep; 33(5); 590–593

Evolutionary derived modulations of attention to two common fear stimuli: Serpents and hostile humans. Öhman A, Soares SC, Juth P, Lindström B, Esteves F. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2012 Jan; 24 (1): 17–32

Emotional responses in spider fear are closely related to picture awareness.
Peira N, Golkar A, Ohman A, Anders S, Wiens S
Cogn Emot 2012 ;26(2):252-60

Are fear memories erasable?-reconsolidation of learned fear with fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli.
Golkar A, Bellander M, Olsson A, Ohman A
Front Behav Neurosci 2012 ;6():80

Threat-relevance impairs executive functions: negative impact on working memory and response inhibition.
Lindström BR, Bohlin G
Emotion 2012 Apr;12(2):384-93

Emotion processing facilitates working memory performance.
Lindström BR, Bohlin G
Cogn Emot 2011 Nov;25(7):1196-204

Book chapter: Olsson A. The impact of social cognition on emotional learning from and about others: A neurobiological perspective. In: Schachtman & Reilly, (Eds.), Associative Learning and Conditioning Theory: Human and Non-Human Applications, Oxford University Press, 2011

5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met genotype gate amygdala reactivity and habituation.
Lonsdorf TB, Golkar A, Lindstöm KM, Fransson P, Schalling M, Ohman A, Ingvar M
Biol Psychol 2011 Apr;87(1):106-12

Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people.
Axelsson J, Sundelin T, Ingre M, Van Someren EJ, Olsson A, Lekander M
BMJ 2010 Dec;341():c6614

Finding the face in a crowd: Relationships between distractor redundancy, target emotion, and target gender. Öhman A, Juth P, Lundqvist D. Cognition & Emotion, 2010 Oct; 24(7),1216–1228

Social problem solving, autobiographical memory, trauma, and depression in women with borderline personality disorder and a history of suicide attempts.
Maurex L, Lekander M, Nilsonne A, Andersson EE, Asberg M, Ohman A
Br J Clin Psychol 2010 Sep;49(Pt 3):327-42

Amygdala-dependent fear conditioning in humans is modulated by the BDNFval66met polymorphism.
Lonsdorf TB, Weike AI, Golkar A, Schalling M, Hamm AO, Öhman A
Behav Neurosci 2010 Feb;124(1):9-15

The serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and affective symptoms among women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Maurex L, Zaboli G, Ohman A, Asberg M, Leopardi R
Eur Psychiatry 2010 Jan;25(1):19-25

Incollection: Olsson A. Observational fear learning. In: Seel, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Science of Learning, Springer US, 2010

What you fear will appear: detection of schematic spiders in spider fear.
Peira N, Golkar A, Larsson M, Wiens S
Exp Psychol 2010 ;57(6):470-5

Of snakes and faces: an evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear.
Ohman A
Scand J Psychol 2009 Dec;50(6):543-52

Distinct control networks for cognition and emotion in the prefrontal cortex.
Kompus K, Hugdahl K, Ohman A, Marklund P, Nyberg L
Neurosci Lett 2009 Dec;467(2):76-80

Some animal specific fears are more specific than others: Evidence from attention and emotion measures.
Soares SC, Esteves F, Lundqvist D, Ohman A
Behav Res Ther 2009 Dec;47(12):1032-42

The symptomatic profile of panic disorder is shaped by the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism.
Lonsdorf TB, Rück C, Bergström J, Andersson G, Ohman A, Schalling M, Lindefors N
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2009 Nov;33(8):1479-83

Book chapter: Olsson A, Öhman A. The affective neuroscience of emotion: Automatic activation, interoception, and emotion regulation. In: Berntson & Cacioppo, (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences, 2 , John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Is cultivating “biological blindness” a viable route to understanding behavioral phenomena?. Olsson A, Öhman A. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2009 Apr;32(2): 220

Genetic gating of human fear learning and extinction: possible implications for gene-environment interaction in anxiety disorder.
Lonsdorf TB, Weike AI, Nikamo P, Schalling M, Hamm AO, Ohman A
Psychol Sci 2009 Feb;20(2):198-206

Fear extinction to an out-group face: the role of target gender.
Navarrete CD, Olsson A, Ho AK, Mendes WB, Thomsen L, Sidanius J
Psychol Sci 2009 Feb;20(2):155-8

Emotionally controlled decision-making and a gene variant related to serotonin synthesis in women with borderline personality disorder.
Maurex L, Zaboli G, Wiens S, Asberg M, Leopardi R, Ohman A
Scand J Psychol 2009 Feb;50(1):5-10

Book chapter: Öhman A. Fear. In: Sander & Scherer, (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2009

Book chapter: Öhman A. Phobia and Human Evolution. In: Squire, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Academic Press, 2009

Book chapter: Öhman A. Human fear conditioning and the amygdala. In: Whalen & Phelps, (Eds.), The Human Amygdala, The Guilford Press, 2009

Book chapter: Öhman A. Post-traumatic fear memories: Analysing a case study of a sexual assault. In: Bäckman & Nyberg (Eds.), Memory, aging and the brain: A Festschrift in honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson, Psychology Press, 2009

The role of social cognition in emotion.
Olsson A, Ochsner KN
Trends Cogn Sci 2008 Feb;12(2):65-71

Book chapter: Öhman A. Fear and anxiety: Overlaps and dissociations. In: Lewis, Haviland-Jones & Barrett, (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, Guilford, 2008

Recognizing masked threat: fear betrays, but disgust you can trust.
Wiens S, Peira N, Golkar A, Ohman A
Emotion 2008 Dec;8(6):810-9

Has evolution primed humans to "beware the beast"?
Ohman A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Oct;104(42):16396-7

On the unconscious subcortical origin of human fear.
Ohman A, Carlsson K, Lundqvist D, Ingvar M
Physiol Behav 2007 Sep;92(1-2):180-5

Social learning of fear.
Olsson A, Phelps EA
Nat Neurosci 2007 Sep;10(9):1095-102

Book chapter: Öhman A, Olsson A. Emotioner [Emotions]. In Olson, (Ed.), Hjärnan, Karolinska Institutet University Press, 2007

Book chapter: Öhman A. Anxiety. In: Fink, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Stress, Elsevier, 2007

Book chapter: Öhman A. Fear. In: Fink, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Stress, Elsevier, 2007

Book chapter: Wiens S,  Öhman A. Probing unconscious emotional processes: On becoming a successful masketeer. In: Coan & Allen, (Eds.), Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment, Oxford University Press, 2007

Learning fears by observing others: the neural systems of social fear transmission.
Olsson A, Nearing KI, Phelps EA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2007 Mar;2(1):3-11

Skin conductance responses to masked conditioned stimuli: phylogenetic/ontogenetic factors versus direction of threat?
Flykt A, Esteves F, Ohman A
Biol Psychol 2007 Mar;74(3):328-36

Book chapter: Olsson A, Phelps EA. Understanding social evaluations: What we can (and cannot) learn from neuroimaging. In: Wittenbrink & Schwarz, (Eds.), Implicit measures of attitudes: Procedures and controversies, Guilford Press, 2007

Book chapter: Öhman A., Rück C. Four Principles of Fear and Their Implications for Phobias. In: Rottenberg & Johnson, (Eds.), Emotion and psychopathology: Bridging affective and clinical science, American Psychological Association

Predictability modulates the affective and sensory-discriminative neural processing of pain.
Carlsson K, Andersson J, Petrovic P, Petersson KM, Ohman A, Ingvar M
Neuroimage 2006 Oct;32(4):1804-14

Essay: Öhman A. Making sense of emotion: evolution, reason & the brain, Daedalus 2006 Jul;135(3):33–45

Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humans.
Delgado MR, Olsson A, Phelps EA
Biol Psychol 2006 Jul;73(1):39-48

Book chapter: Öhman A. Automatic processes in emotion: Capture of attention and emotion activation. In: Jing & Rosenzweig, (Eds.), Progress in Psychological Science Around the World: Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues: Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Psychology Press, 2006

Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task.
Johansson P, Hall L, Sikström S, Olsson A
Science 2005 Oct;310(5745):116-9

The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear.
Olsson A, Ebert JP, Banaji MR, Phelps EA
Science 2005 Jul;309(5735):785-7

Psychology. Conditioned fear of a face: a prelude to ethnic enmity?
Ohman A
Science 2005 Jul;309(5735):711-3

Looking for foes and friends: perceptual and emotional factors when finding a face in the crowd.
Juth P, Lundqvist D, Karlsson A, Ohman A
Emotion 2005 Dec;5(4):379-95

Book chapter: Lundqvist D, Öhman A. Caught by the Evil Eye: Nonconscious Information Processing, Emotion, and Attention to Facial Stimuli. In: Barrett, Niedenthal, & Winkielman, (Eds.), Emotion and consciousness, The Guilford Press

Emotion regulates attention: The relation between facial configurations, facial emotion, and visual attention. Lundqvist D, Öhman A. Visual Cognition, 2005 Mar;12:51–84

Learned fear of "unseen" faces after Pavlovian, observational, and instructed fear.
Olsson A, Phelps EA
Psychol Sci 2004 Dec;15(12):822-8

Book chapter: Öhman A, Wiens S. The concept of an evolved fear module and cognitive theories of anxiety. In: Manstead, Frijda & Fischer, (Eds.): Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction), Cambridge University Press, 2004

Keeping it short: a comparison of methods for brief picture presentation.
Wiens S, Fransson P, Dietrich T, Lohmann P, Ingvar M, Ohman A
Psychol Sci 2004 Apr;15(4):282-5

Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness.
Critchley HD, Wiens S, Rotshtein P, Ohman A, Dolan RJ
Nat Neurosci 2004 Feb;7(2):189-95

The face of wrath: The role of features and configurations in conveying social threat.
Lundqvist D, Esteves F, Öhman A
Cogn Emot 2004 Feb;18(2):161-182

The facilitated processing of threatening faces: an ERP analysis.
Schupp HT, Ohman A, Junghöfer M, Weike AI, Stockburger J, Hamm AO
Emotion 2004 Jun;4(2):189-200

Fear and the amygdala: manipulation of awareness generates differential cerebral responses to phobic and fear-relevant (but nonfeared) stimuli.
Carlsson K, Petersson KM, Lundqvist D, Karlsson A, Ingvar M, Ohman A
Emotion 2004 Dec;4(4):340-53

More references for Observational Fear Conditioning Procedure

The causal role of affect sharing in driving vicarious fear learning.
Müllner-Huber A, Anton-Boicuk L, Pronizius E, Lengersdorff L, Olsson A, Lamm C
PLoS One 2022 ;17(11):e0277793

Observation of others' threat reactions recovers memories previously shaped by firsthand experiences.
Haaker J, Diaz-Mataix L, Guillazo-Blanch G, Stark SA, Kern L, LeDoux JE, Olsson A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021 Jul;118(30):

Observational learning of fear in real time procedure.
Szczepanik M, Kaźmierowska AM, Michałowski JM, Wypych M, Olsson A, Knapska E
Sci Rep 2020 Oct;10(1):16960

A common neural network differentially mediates direct and social fear learning.
Lindström B, Haaker J, Olsson A
Neuroimage 2018 Feb;167():121-129

The interplay of social group biases in social threat learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2017 Aug;7(1):7685

Social Fear Learning: from Animal Models to Human Function.
Debiec J, Olsson A
Trends Cogn Sci 2017 Jul;21(7):546-555

Assessment of social transmission of threats in humans using observational fear conditioning.
Haaker J, Golkar A, Selbing I, Olsson A
Nat Protoc 2017 Jul;12(7):1378-1386

Endogenous opioids regulate social threat learning in humans.
Haaker J, Yi J, Petrovic P, Olsson A
Nat Commun 2017 May;8():15495

Neural signals of vicarious extinction learning.
Golkar A, Haaker J, Selbing I, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1541-9

Immunization against social fear learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2016 Jun;145(6):665-71

Testosterone and estrogen impact social evaluations and vicarious emotions: A double-blind placebo-controlled study.
Olsson A, Kopsida E, Sorjonen K, Savic I
Emotion 2016 Jun;16(4):515-23

Vicarious Fear Learning Depends on Empathic Appraisals and Trait Empathy.
Olsson A, McMahon K, Papenberg G, Zaki J, Bolger N, Ochsner KN
Psychol Sci 2016 Jan;27(1):25-33

Spontaneous eye movements and trait empathy predict vicarious learning of fear.
Kleberg JL, Selbing I, Lundqvist D, Hofvander B, Olsson A
Int J Psychophysiol 2015 Dec;98(3 Pt 2):577-83

Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator's racial group.
Golkar A, Castro V, Olsson A
Biol Lett 2015 Jan;11(1):20140817

Other people as means to a safe end: vicarious extinction blocks the return of learned fear.
Golkar A, Selbing I, Flygare O, Ohman A, Olsson A
Psychol Sci 2013 Nov;24(11):2182-90

Social learning of fear.
Olsson A, Phelps EA
Nat Neurosci 2007 Sep;10(9):1095-102

Learning fears by observing others: the neural systems of social fear transmission.
Olsson A, Nearing KI, Phelps EA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2007 Mar;2(1):3-11

Learned fear of "unseen" faces after Pavlovian, observational, and instructed fear.
Olsson A, Phelps EA
Psychol Sci 2004 Dec;15(12):822-8

SOBP 2022

EMHFC 2021

Presentation: Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (May, 2021). The Face value of Feedback: Facial behavior is shaped by goals and punishment in interactive dyads. the Virtual European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning.

Presentation: Yafeng, P., Vinding, M. C., Lundqvist, D., & Olsson, A. A multi-brain mechanism for observational threat learning.

SOBP 2021

SANS 2021

Presentation: Vieira, J.B., & Olsson, A. (2021, April) Threat imminence facilitates care-motivated helping in dangerous contexts. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Jangard, S., Lindström, B., Khemiri, L., Jayaram-Lindström, N., & Olsson, A. (2021, April). Prosocial Decision-Making in Young Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Presentation of: Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (April, 2021). The Face Value of Feedback: Facial Behaviour is shaped by goals and punishment in interactive dyads. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

Presentation: Pan, Y, Vinding, C.M, Lundqvist, D, & Olsson, A. (2021, April) A multi-brain mechanism for observational threat learning. Annual Meeting of The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. A Virtual Event.

SfN 2021

SANS 2019

CNS 2019

SPSAN 2018

OHBM 2018

MEG Nord 2018

SANS 2018

Posters from previous years:

Selbing, I. & Olsson, A., (2017, June) Strategies of observational reinforcement learning. Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, Ann Arbor, MI.

Pärnamets, P., Hensler, T., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Computational analysis of moral choices between racial in- and outgroup members. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Pärnamets, P., Lindström, B., Jangard, S., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Computational mechanisms underlying moral choices’ adjustment of descriptive norms. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Pärnamets, P., Espinosa, L., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Interpersonal sychronisation as a mediating mechanism in vicarious fear learning. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Undeger, I., Golkar, A., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (2017, March) Effects of agency on learning fear from others. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Selbing, I. & Olsson, A. (2016, August) Descriptions of others’ ability corrupt observational learning. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Pärnamets, P. & Olsson, A. (2016, August) Predictive gaze cues facilitate instrumental avoidance learning. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Pärnamets, P., Hall, L. & Johansson, P. (2016, August) Same, same but different? evidence accumulation across moral and non-moral domains. Society for NeuroEconomics Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Undeger, I. & Olsson, A. (2016, April) Effects of agency on learning fear from others. European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Pärnamets, P. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Predictive gaze cues facilitate instrumental avoidance learning. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Molapour, T. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Eye for an eye: Reciprocal punishment in dyadic interactions. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Golkar, A. & Olsson, A. (2016, April). Observational fear learning is determined by social group. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Haaker, J., Yi, J., & Olsson, A. (2016, April) Blockade of endogenous opioids enhances observational fear learning via teaching signals in the amygdala and PAG. Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Molapour, T., Golkar, A., Navarrete, C., Haaker, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, June) Neural correlates of biased social fear learning and interaction in an intergroup context. 21st Annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Haaker, J., Molapour, T. & Olsson, A. (2015, June) Social dominance threat is shaped by observing confrontations between others. 21st Annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping, Honolulu, HI.

Haaker, J., Yi, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, May). Influence of opioidergic neurotransmission on vicarious acquisition of fear. Seventh European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning, Bochum, Germany.

Lindström, B., Haaker, J., & Olsson, A. (2015, May). Neural and computational underpinnings of social threat learning. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Haaker, J., Golkar, A., Selbing, I., & Olsson, A. (2014, November). Observational extinction blocks learned fear by recruitment of the vmPFC in humans. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Hjort, O., & Olsson, A. (2013, May). Social learning of avoidance: Reinforcement learning and experimental results. Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Selbing, I., Molapour, T., & Olsson, A. (2013, May). Racial bias drives social reinforcement learning. Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Lindström, B. R., Golkar, A., Ährlund-Richter, S., Wiktor, P., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). The impact of stimulus value on goal-directed aversive reinforcement learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Nilsonne, G., Tamm, S., Golkar, A., Gospic, K., Olsson, A., Ingvar, M., Petrovic, P. (2013, April). Pharmacological manipulation of empathy using oxazepam. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Golkar, A., Selbing, I., Flygare, O., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Others as means to a safe end: Vicarious extinction blocks the return of learned fear. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Selbing, I., Lindström, B. R., Golkar, A., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Adaptive observational aversive learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Molapour, T., Golkar, A., Navarrete, C., Hjort, O., & Olsson, A. (2013, April). Brain responses during extinction of learned fear to racial in-group and out-group faces. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Nilsonne, G., Tamm, S., Golkar, A., Olsson, A., Ingvar, M., & Petrovic, P. (2012, April). Effect of the benzodiazepine agonist oxazepam on psychophysiological and self-reported indices of empathy. 5th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Lindström, B. R., Berglund Mattsson-Marn, I., Golkar, A., & Olsson, A. (2012, March). Activity in the corrugator supercilii muscle as a novel index of punishment-guided cognitive control. Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

Fürth, D., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2011, September) Inter-individual variability, measurement and information in aversive learning. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, MA.

Furth, D., Andersson, E., Golkar, A., Lonsdorf, T., Derbsch, M., Öhman, A., & Olsson, A. (2009, October). Learning to fear others through pavlovian conditioning and social punishment. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.

Simon receives grant from Söderström-Königska sjukhemmet

December, 2023

Together with responsible researcher Lotfi Khemiri, Simon has been granted 170 000 SEK for his project "Oxytocin and prosocial behavior in alcohol use disorder". 

Simon receives scholarship

September 21, 2023

Simon has been awarded this year's Jörgen-Engel scholarship for his article  ”Alcohol Use Disorder Displays Trait-Related Reductions in Prosocial Decision Making”. The jury's statement:

Simon Jangard receives the Jörgen Engel scholarship in 2023 for an article in which he investigated a number of different aspects of social decision-making in young people with alcohol use disorder. Through an ambitious study design, he and his colleagues have reached interesting and reliable results, which shed light on a partly new aspect of alcohol problems.

2022

New paper on altruism during Covid

November 3, 2022

Acute anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with higher levels of everyday altruism.
Vieira JB, Pierzchajlo S, Jangard S, Marsh AA, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2022 Nov;12(1):18619

Paper accepted in eLife

Oct 25, 2022

Neural defensive circuits underlie helping under threat in humans.
Vieira JB, Olsson A
Elife 2022 Oct;11():

New paper in BRAT

December 14, 2022

Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time.
Espinosa L, Bonsall MB, Becker N, Holmes EA, Olsson A
Behav Res Ther 2022 Oct;157():104161

New paper in Biological Psychiatry

May 18, 2022

Alcohol Use Disorder Displays Trait-Related Reductions in Prosocial Decision Making.
Jangard S, Lindström B, Khemiri L, Pärnamets P, Jayaram-Lindström N, Olsson A
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2022 Sep;7(9):925-934

New paper in Emotion

May 17, 2022

Psychological well-being is associated with prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of Swedish and Chinese samples.
Pan Y, Vieira JB, Pärnamets P, Jangard S, Cheng X, Zhang Y, Olsson A
Emotion 2022 Aug;():

2021

Forthcoming paper in Nature Communications

November 9, 2021

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic.
Van Bavel JJ,..., Olsson A,..., Jangard S,..., Pan Y, Papp Z, Pärnamets P,..., Vieira JB, von Sikorski C, Walker AC, Watermeyer J, Wetter E, Whillans A, Willardt R, Wohl MJA, Wójcik AD, Wu K, Yamada Y, Yilmaz O, Yogeeswaran K, Ziemer CT, Zwaan RA, Boggio PS
Nat Commun 2022 Jan;13(1):517

Forthcoming paper in Royal Society Open Science

November 9, 2021

Model-based representational similarity analysis of blood-oxygen-level-dependent fMRI captures threat learning in social interactions.
Undeger I, Visser RM, Becker N, de Boer L, Golkar A, Olsson A
R Soc Open Sci 2021 Nov;8(11):202116

New paper in PNAS

September 6, 2021

Observation of others' threat reactions recovers memories previously shaped by firsthand experiences.
Haaker J, Diaz-Mataix L, Guillazo-Blanch G, Stark SA, Kern L, LeDoux JE, Olsson A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021 Jul;118(30):

2020

Simon awarded the Bertil Göransson Scholarship

November 27, 2020

Simon has been awarded this year’s Bertil Göransson Scholarship – a 30 000 kr award for alcohol researchers, financed by Systembolaget (Swedish press release).

Philip awarded Swedish Research Council grant

November 4, 2020

Philip has been awarded 3.2 MSEK to study how decisions and social learning shape intergroup trust.

Trust is fundamental to social behavior and to the functioning of society. Recent work has shown that increasing diversity in society might lead to lower levels of trust. However, how such changes in trust are acquired by individuals and shaped by their experiences is not known. Here we propose to investigate trust as a learning phenomenon, using methods and theories from experimental social psychology and computational reinforcement learning theory. By doing so we address a critical gap in the literature and contribute a behavior-based approach to studying a trust complementing existing survey-based methods. Over the course of three studies we will investigate how participants learn to trust and distrust social partners based on their own and their partners’ ethnic group membership. In the first, we will investigate how decisions about whom to interact with can bias what experiences are available to learn from. In the second, we will investigate the role of observational social learning shaping trust expectations. In the third, we will leverage insights from the first two studies to pilot interventions aimed at increasing trust. The studies will be the first of their kind taking a comprehensive learning approach to trust between members of different ethnic groups and provide critical information how individual experiences shape intergroup trust. These findings can, in turn, not only inform existing theoretical debates but further translational efforts targeting societal trust.

New paper in Behaviour Research and Therapy

November 1, 2020

Social safety learning: Shared safety abolishes the recovery of learned threat.
Pan Y, Olsson A, Golkar A
Behav Res Ther 2020 Dec;135():103733

New paper in Molecular Autism

September 24, 2020

Enhanced social learning of threat in adults with autism.
Espinosa L, Lundin Kleberg J, Hofvander B, Berggren S, Bölte S, Olsson A
Mol Autism 2020 Sep;11(1):71

New paper in PLOS Computational Biology

September 9, 2020

Integration of social cues and individual experiences during instrumental avoidance learning.
Pärnamets P, Olsson A
PLoS Comput Biol 2020 Sep;16(9):e1008163

New paper accepted in Proc. Royal Soc. B

August 24, 2020

Help or flight? Increased threat imminence promotes defensive helping in humans.
Vieira JB, Schellhaas S, Enström E, Olsson A
Proc Biol Sci 2020 Aug;287(1933):20201473

New paper accepted in Cerebral Cortex

April 27, 2020

Neural Pattern Similarity Unveils the Integration of Social Information and Aversive Learning.
Undeger I, Visser RM, Olsson A
Cereb Cortex 2020 Sep;30(10):5410-5419

New paper accepted in Proc. Royal Soc. B

April 27, 2020

Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans.
Pärnamets P, Espinosa L, Olsson A
Proc Biol Sci 2020 May;287(1927):20192779

New paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience

February 17, 2020

The neural and computational systems of social learning.
Olsson A, Knapska E, Lindström B
Nat Rev Neurosci 2020 Apr;21(4):197-212

New paper accepted in Emotion

January 17, 2020

Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning.
Stussi Y, Pourtois G, Olsson A, Sander D
Emotion 2021 Jun;21(4):742-756

2019

Andreas appointed full professor

September 2, 2019

Andreas Olsson has been appointed Professor of Psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, from 1 September 2019. Congratulations, Andreas!

New paper in Scientific Reports

June 24, 2019

Anxious behaviour in a demonstrator affects observational learning.
Selbing I, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2019 Jun;9(1):9181

New paper accepted in PNAS

January 18, 2019

Social threat learning transfers to decision making in humans.
Lindström B, Golkar A, Jangard S, Tobler PN, Olsson A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019 Mar;116(10):4732-4737

2018

New review on Social Learning

October 17, 2018

Social regulation of survival circuits through learning.

Olsson A., FeldmanHall O, Haaker J, Hensler T

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2018 Dec; 24: 161–167

CogSci 2018 Conference Paper

July 25, 2018

Building and Dismantling Trust: From Group Learning to Character Judgments.

Pärnamets P, Granwald T, Olsson A

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 2018

Philip in magazine Medical Science

February 26, 2018

The magazine Medical Science reports on work by Philip and colleagues: Curious about trust: Who do you believe? (Also available in Swedish.)

Who do you trust? Rumours – even when we know they are untrue, affects how much we trust others. And unfortunately, it is easier to destroy trust than to build it. Our capability to trust in others also varies, the researchers are trying to find out more.

2017

Emotion Lab’s research on TV

December 12, 2017

Swedish public television visited Emotion Lab to report on how people learn from others. The story aired in SVT’s Nobelstudion.

New paper accepted in NeuroImage

November 21, 2017

A common neural network differentially mediates direct and social fear learning.
Lindström B, Haaker J, Olsson A
Neuroimage 2018 Feb;167():121-129

New paper accepted in Scientific Reports

November 20, 2017

Beliefs about Others' Abilities Alter Learning from Observation.
Selbing I, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2017 Nov;7(1):16173

Ida successfully defended her PhD

September 18, 2017

Ida successfully defended her doctoral thesis, Learning from the Behaviors and Experiences of Others, on Monday 18 September (2017) with Professor Christian Ruff (University of Zurich, Department of Economics) as her opponent.

Examination board: Professor Peter Juslin (Uppsala University), Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg (Stockholm School of Economics) and Dr Marc Guitart-Masip (Karolinska Institutet)

New paper accepted in JEP: General

August 1, 2017

The role of a "common is moral" heuristic in the stability and change of moral norms.
Lindström B, Jangard S, Selbing I, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2018 Feb;147(2):228-242

New paper in Scientific Reports

July 20, 2017

The interplay of social group biases in social threat learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
Sci Rep 2017 Aug;7(1):7685

New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

June 7, 2017

Social Fear Learning: from Animal Models to Human Function.
Debiec J, Olsson A
Trends Cogn Sci 2017 Jul;21(7):546-555

New paper in Nature Communications

April 12, 2017

Endogenous opioids regulate social threat learning in humans.
Haaker J, Yi J, Petrovic P, Olsson A
Nat Commun 2017 May;8():15495

Philip wins SANS Poster Award

February 27, 2017

Philip is part of the 20 most highly rated abstracts that will be presented as posters at this year Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) conference at UCLA.

New paper accepted in Nature Protocols

January 17, 2017

Neural signals of vicarious extinction learning.
Golkar A, Haaker J, Selbing I, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1541-9

2016

Philip awarded SRC Grant

December 1, 2016

Philip has received an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskaprsådet) for three years. He will join Jay Van Bavel’s Social Perception and Evaluation Lab at New York University for 2 years and spend his returning year with Emotion Lab.

Philip awarded dissertation prize

December 1, 2016

Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund (Learned Society of Lund) has awarded Philip with a prize from AWK Gleerups fund for his 2015 dissertation “Observing and manipulating preferences in real time”.

New paper in SCAN

October 11, 2016

Neural signals of vicarious extinction learning.
Golkar A, Haaker J, Selbing I, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1541-9

Tanaz successfully defended her PhD

October 21, 2016

Tanaz successfully defended her doctoral thesis, The role of aversive learning in social interactions, on Friday October 21st (2016 with Dr. Grit Hein (University of Bern) as her opponent.

Examination board: Prof. Håkan Fischer (Stockholm University), Dr. Fredrik Åhs (Uppsala University) and Dr. Lisa Thorell (Karolinska Institutet).

Symposium at the Royal Academy of Science

October 20, 2016

To fear or not to fear? Mechanisms of fear and safety learning.
Guest speakers: Armita Golkar, Emily Holmes (Karolinska Institutet), Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam), and Grit Hein (U. of Bern)

New paper accepted in SCAN

October 1, 2016

Conditioned social dominance threat: observation of others' social dominance biases threat learning.
Haaker J, Molapour T, Olsson A
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016 Oct;11(10):1627-37

New paper accepted in PLoS One

July 27, 2016

Co-Evolution of Social Learning and Evolutionary Preparedness in Dangerous Environments.
Lindström B, Selbing I, Olsson A
PLoS One 2016 ;11(8):e0160245

New paper in Frontiers

June 14, 2016

Aversive Learning and Trait Aggression Influence Retaliatory Behavior.
Molapour T, Lindström B, Olsson A
Front Psychol 2016 ;7():833

Philip receives Dissertation Prize

April 26, 2016

Philip receives the 2016 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize awarded by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation.

Irem receives Poster award at the EMHFC

April 26, 2016

Irem receives the first price in the Poster competition at the Eighth European Meeting on Humain Fear Conditioning in Utrecht (2016).

Undeger, I. & Olsson, A. (2016). Effects of agency on learning fear from others. European Meeting of Humain Fear Conditioning, Utrecht, April 2016.

New paper accepted in JEP:G

March 22, 2016

Immunization against social fear learning.
Golkar A, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2016 Jun;145(6):665-71

Björn discusses on BBC

January 11, 2016

Björn discusses our research on BBC Radio 4.

Listen to it here, or read the article linked below.

Mechanisms of social avoidance learning can explain the emergence of adaptive and arbitrary behavioral traditions in humans.
Lindström B, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2015 Jun;144(3):688-703

2015

Armita receives psychology award

November 19, 2015

The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, granted Armita Golkar the award for outstanding young researcher in Psychology.

Andreas and Tanaz on Swedish radio

November 6, 2015

Read or listen here.

Paper accepted in Psychological Science

July 9, 2015

Vicarious Fear Learning Depends on Empathic Appraisals and Trait Empathy.
Olsson A, McMahon K, Papenberg G, Zaki J, Bolger N, Ochsner KN
Psychol Sci 2016 Jan;27(1):25-33

Paper accepted in NeuroImage

July 7, 2015

Neural correlates of biased social fear learning and interaction in an intergroup context.
Molapour T, Golkar A, Navarrete CD, Haaker J, Olsson A
Neuroimage 2015 Nov;121():171-83

Paper accepted in JEP:G

February 26, 2015

Mechanisms of social avoidance learning can explain the emergence of adaptive and arbitrary behavioral traditions in humans.
Lindström B, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2015 Jun;144(3):688-703

Paper accepted in Emotion

February 9, 2015

Testosterone and estrogen impact social evaluations and vicarious emotions: A double-blind placebo-controlled study.
Olsson A, Kopsida E, Sorjonen K, Savic I
Emotion 2016 Jun;16(4):515-23

Jan Haaker receives grant from DFG

January 21, 2015

2014

Paper accepted in Biology Letters

December 11, 2014

Social learning of fear and safety is determined by the demonstrator's racial group.
Golkar A, Castro V, Olsson A
Biol Lett 2015 Jan;11(1):20140817

Paper accepted in JEP:General

December 10, 2014

A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events.
Hirst W, Phelps EA, Meksin R, Vaidya CJ, Johnson MK, Mitchell KJ, Buckner RL, Budson AE, Gabrieli JD, Lustig C, Mather M, Ochsner KN, Schacter D, Simons JS, Lyle KB, Cuc AF, Olsson A
J Exp Psychol Gen 2015 Jun;144(3):604-23

Andreas selected as a Wallenberg Academy Fellow

December 5, 2014

Press release.

Björn receives post-doc award from the Swedish Research Council

December 3, 2014

Björn Lindström received post-doc funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).