Michał Szczepanik

This study uses fMRI to show that observational fear learning from friends and strangers produces similar brain activity patterns, suggesting familiarity does not enhance threat learning.

The paper investigates how emotion schemas affect associative memory across different emotion categories, showing differences in behavioral, physiological, and neural responses between disgust and fear.

This study investigates observational fear learning by having observers watch a friend perform a fear-conditioning task in real time, finding that emotional reactions and contingency learning both contribute to the process.