Dissociable Effects of Early and Adolescent Adversity on Emotional Contagion
Paloma P. Maldonado, Erica Berretta, Viviana Canicatti, Xiaoyi Feng, Efe Soyman, Lenca Cuturela, Maryam Sadeghi, Ákos Babiczky, Georg Goebel, Harm J. Krugers, Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola, Rajeev Rajendran
This study examines how early and adolescent adversity differently affect emotional contagion in rats, finding distinct effects on observer-to-demonstrator and demonstrator-to-observer emotional transfer, with sex-specific pathways.
bioRxiv · Feb 2, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience