Evaluative conditioning: Past, present, and future

T Moran, Y Nudler, Y Bar-Anan - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Evaluative conditioning (EC) research investigates changes in the evaluation of a stimulus
after co-occurrence with an affective stimulus. To explain the motivation behind this …

Behavioral and neural processes in counterconditioning: Past and future directions

NE Keller, AC Hennings, JE Dunsmoor - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Counterconditioning refers both to the technique and putative process by which behavior is
modified through a new association with a stimulus of an opposite valence. Similar to …

Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations

KE Ojala, DR Bach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

Overcoming avoidance in anxiety disorders: The contributions of Pavlovian and operant avoidance extinction methods

S Dymond - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Avoidance is generally adaptive, yet excessive rates of avoidance can become maladaptive
and lead to functional impairment and psychopathology. Laboratory-based treatment …

Common neurocircuitry mediating drug and fear relapse in preclinical models

TD Goode, S Maren - Psychopharmacology, 2019 - Springer
Background Comorbidity of anxiety disorders, stressor-and trauma-related disorders, and
substance use disorders is extremely common. Moreover, therapies that reduce pathological …

Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction

M Woelk, MA Hagenaars, F Raes, B Vervliet… - Behaviour Research and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Exposure therapy consists of exposing patients to their fears and thereby diminishing their
harm expectancies (ie, extinction or expectancy learning). Although effective for many …

[HTML][HTML] Positive mood induction does not reduce return of fear: A virtual reality exposure study for public speaking anxiety

SC van Veen, TD Zbozinek, EAM van Dis… - … Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous laboratory work has shown that induction of positive mood prior to fear extinction
decreases the negative valence of the conditional stimulus (CS) and reduces reinstatement …

Secure attachment priming protects against relapse of fear in Young adults

M Toumbelekis, BJ Liddell, RA Bryant - Translational psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Previous studies have shown that activating the attachment system attenuates fear learning.
This study aimed to explore whether attachment priming can also impact on fear extinction …

Reducing negative stimulus valence does not attenuate the return of fear: Two counterconditioning experiments

EAM van Dis, MA Hagenaars, CLH Bockting… - Behaviour research and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders is effective for many patients, but relapse is
not uncommon. One predictor of the return of fear is the negative valence of fear-relevant …

The effects of the flash technique compared to those of an abbreviated eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy protocol on the emotionality and …

TC Brouwers, A de Jongh… - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The Flash technique is a novel intervention aimed at rapidly decreasing the
subjective disturbance of an aversive memory, thereby serving as a potential way of treating …