Methodological Comments and Application Fields of Fear Conditioning in Different Psychological DisciplinesAbstract. Fear conditioning represents an important paradigm for investigating emotional learning and memory processes. With a history of about 100 ...
Intensified Exposure to Promote Inhibitory Learning in Anxiety Disorders. Therapeutic Implementation in a Clinical TrialAbstract. The efficacy of exposure therapy in anxiety disorders is firmly established. Yet, a substantial proportion of patients does ...
Conditioning studies in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) revealed intact acquisition and within-session extinction for patients with low acute dissociation and impaired acquisition for patients with high acute dissociation. In Posttraumatic Stress ...
Two experiments investigated the perceptual generalization of acquisition and extinction in human contingency learning. In Experiment 1, the degree of perceptual similarity between the acquisition stimulus and the generalization stimulus was manipulated ...
The evidence for the effectiveness of counterconditioning as a strategy for changing conditioned preferences is rather scarce and inconclusive. The present experiment reinvestigated this issue and compared the effect of further conditioning, extinction, ...
Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on ...