Ruch and Proyer (2008) provided preliminary evidence for the validity of gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at) by showing that a group of individuals diagnosed as gelotophobic could be discriminated from groups of shame-based neurotics, non shame-...
Neural correlates of the processing of threat-relevant stimuli in phobics and healthy subjectsAbstract. The increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, resulted in numerous new findings, which extended the ...
Stimulus generalization in animal phobiaAbstract.Background: Limitations of traditional conditioning theories of the pathogenesis of phobias require the development of extended models of learning. Objective: We examined whether the evocation of phobic ...
Zusammenfassung. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist, eine Diskussion über evidenzbasierte Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie von Angst- und Phobischen Störungen des Kindes- und Jugendalters zu initiieren. In den letzten Jahren kam es zu ...
Fear reduction by means of repeated stimulus exposure in animal phobiaAbstract.Background: Habituation of phobic fear is often considered to be central for the effect of exposure therapy. However, fear reduction might imply more complex interactions ...
We investigated whether amygdala activation, autonomic responses, respiratory responses, and facial muscle activity (measured over the brow and cheek [fear grin] regions) are all sensitive to phobic versus nonphobic fear and, more importantly, whether ...