Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders and are often chronic and
disabling. Although exposure-based treatments are effective, a substantial number of …

At the heart of emotion, mood, and any other emotionally charged event are states
experienced as simply feeling good or bad, energized or enervated. These states—called …

Psychophysiological and neuroscience studies of emotional processing undertaken by
investigators at the University of Florida Laboratory of the Center for the Study of Emotion …

An evolved module for fear elicitation and fear learning with 4 characteristics is proposed.(a)
The fear module is preferentially activated in aversive contexts by stimuli that are fear …

Emotional reactions are organized by underlying motivational states--defensive and
appetitive--that have evolved to promote the survival of individuals and species. Affective …

Participants searched for discrepant fear-relevant pictures (snakes or spiders) in grid-pattern
arrays of fear-irrelevant pictures belonging to the same category (flowers or mushrooms) …

Initiated as part of the ongoing deliberation about the nosological structure of DSM, this
review aims to evaluate whether the anxiety disorders share features of responding that …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

As new technology fuels the rapid growth of research in psychophysiology, it is essential that
those new to the field receive a comprehensive introduction. Psychophysiology: Human …

The aim of this paper is to explicate what is special about emotional information processing,
emphasizing the neural foundations that underlie the experience and expression of fear. A …