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Dean Mobbs
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 93
Citations - 10464
Dean Mobbs is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 84 publications receiving 7729 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Mobbs include Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit & Stanford University.
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Inferences of others' competence reduces anticipation of pain when under threat
TL;DR: Results confirmed that high competence ratings consistently corresponded with lower reported anxiety, and complementary fMRI data showed that increased competence perception was further expressed as decreased activity in the bilateral posterior insula, a region localized to actual pain stimulation.
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Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects
TL;DR: Electrodermal activity was measured in 156 adults while they participated in small groups in a 30-min haunted-house experience involving various immersive threats to demonstrate the relevance of social dynamics (friends vs. strangers) for tonic arousal and subjective fear and threat predictability for phasic arousal.
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Dopey dopamine: high tonic results in ironic performance.
Brian Silston,Dean Mobbs +1 more
TL;DR: A new PET study questions whether dopamine is beneficial to performance, showing that tonic DA synthesis predicts performance decrements when incentives are high.
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A Neural Network for Moral Decision Making
Oriel FeldmanHall,Dean Mobbs +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the functional roles of the prefrontal cortex, temporal lobes (including the amygdala), and cingulate cortex are examined, and it is shown that lesions to this neural network not only cause deficits in socioemotional responding but also can profoundly disrupt moral behavior.
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Pavlovian occasion setting in human fear and appetitive conditioning: Effects of trait anxiety and trait depression
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of trait anxiety and trait depression on modulation-based Pavlovian learning were investigated with humans in fear and appetitive conditioning paradigms, training stimuli in differential conditioning, feature-positive discriminations, and feature-negative discriminations.