… the social regulation of emotion, individual differences in the response to the social regulation
of emotion may be most apparent when measuring behavioral responses. Therefore, we …

… Realistic threats are defined as threats to the well-being of in-group members. Symbolic …
Because the goal of this research study was to examine the social regulation of …

… Coan, JA, Schaefer, HS, & Davidson, RJ (2006). Lending a hand: Social regulation of the
neural response to threat. Psychological Science, 17(12), 1032–1039. Gibson, GO, & Craig, JC …

On a daily basis, we place our lives in the hands of strangers. From dentists to pilots, we make
inferences about their competence to perform their jobs and consequently to keep us from …

… our understanding of how social support influences … brain responses to pain predict pain
ratings during Handholding and whether this effect is stronger during Handholding than control. …

… impersonal to interpersonal touch found, for example, more pronounced neural responses
in S1, S2, and the PI when women were touched by hand compared to an object (Kress et al., …

… rate their feelings of warmth and connection in response to each task. In addition, because
similarities between neural responses to social and physical warmth could be attributed to the …

… our ancestors (Goleman, 2006, p. 113), since we evolved as a social species. Humans are
… Holding a loving partner’s hand lessens the experience of physical pain (Coan, Schaefer, & …

… , are also involved in the experience of social exclusion. Many of the functional MRI studies
that examined the neural response to social exclusion have used the cyberball paradigm. …

… One study contrasted neural responses to socially punishing vs. neutral stimuli within and …
In a study examining neural responses to social punishment, 11 participants with SSD listened …