The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of
science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to …

Fear learning reflects the adaptive ability to learn to anticipate aversive events and to display
preparatory fear reactions based on prior experiences. Usually, these learning experiences …

Translational neuroscience bridges insights from specific mechanisms in rodents to complex
functions in humans and is key to advance our general understanding of central nervous …

Background and objectives Fear conditioning paradigms use various measures to assess
learned fear, including autonomic arousal responses like skin conductance, and self-reports …

Conditioned response (CRs) triggered by stimuli predicting aversive consequences have
been confirmed across various species including humans, and were found to be …

The preregistration of a study's hypotheses, methods, and data-analyses steps is becoming
a popular psychological research practice. To date, most of the discussion on study …

Fear extinction is a central model for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Initial research has
reported that the single presentation of a conditioned stimulus prior to extinction learning …

Recent research findings indicate that human fear conditioning is affected by instructions,
particularly those concerning the contingency between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and …

In the context of fear conditioning, different psychophysiological measures have been
related to different learning processes. Specifically, skin conductance responses (SCRs) …

Mental imagery may represent a weaker form of perception and, thus, mental images may
be more ambiguous than visual percepts. If correct, the acquisition of fear would be less …