Affect-sharing, the ability to vicariously feel another person's emotions, is the primary
component of empathy that is typically thought to rely on the observer's capacity to feel the …

Fear conditioning is a significant area of research that has featured prominently among the
topics published in Biological Psychology over the last 50 years. This work has greatly …

Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a significant public health problem. A better
understanding of the psychosocial factors contributing to AUD is important for developing …

Grief is an individual, family, and social psychological process following the death of a loved
one, during which the pain caused by loss follows several stages that will lead to the …

Fear contagion is an automatic process of aligning one animal's emotional state with
another's emotional distress. It has been described in different social species, including rats …

Recognizing potential dangers in the environment is essential for survival, prompting social
species to employ both direct and vicarious cues for learning about threats. Vicarious fear …