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Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to threat
Coan, J. A., Schaefer, H. S., & Davidson, R. J. (2006). Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to threat.
Level B Experiment doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01832.x
What this study supports
Supports the claim that spousal hand-holding was associated with attenuated threat-related activation, more than a stranger's hand, and more so in higher-quality marriages. A small, homogeneous sample and a within-subject design; replication in larger samples is limited.
- Who was studied
- 16 married women in an fMRI threat-of-shock task holding their husband's hand, a stranger's hand or no hand.
- Design
- Experiment
- Level of evidence
- Controlled studies: randomised or experimental designs, and syntheses of correlational work.
Claims that rest on it
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