… hand-holding would attenuate threat-responsive neural activity. Second, we hypothesized
that attenuation of the neural threat response would be maximized during spousal hand-…

… , several regions, notably the dlPFC and posterior cingulate, that were less active during
spousal handholding in Coan et al. (2006) were also less active during handholding by …

… neural responses to threat. Here we report reanalyzed data from Coan, Schaefer, and Davidson
(Citation2006), … relational mutuality in the neural response to threat. Mutuality reflects the …

… Admittedly, our research has focused on the social regulation of response to threat, but we
believe the basic ideas behind SBT are generalizable to positive emotions as well. People …

… reflect our available resources (Proffitt, 2006). An association between human perception …
social support affects the neural response to a threatening stimulus demonstrates that social …

… (Hofer, 2006), primarily concerned with the social regulation of … I refer to this second level of
social regulation as load sharing, … a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to threat. …

… In conclusion, we examined how anxiety relates to the neural response to threat under
conditions of social support. We demonstrated that, when alone, participants with higher trait …

… physiological reactivity (Coan, 2008). We think of this as the social regulation of emotion and
believe further that the emotion-… Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to …

… baseline model—of potential neural mechanisms linking the social regulation of emotion to
decreased threat responding, … Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to …

… Coan, JA, Schaefer, HS, & Davidson, RJ (2006). Lending a hand: Social regulation of the
neural response to threat. Psychological Science, 17, 1032–1039. Dawson, G., Ashman, SB, …