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 …

This article presents a meta-analysis of research on evaluative conditioning (EC), defined as
a change in the liking of a stimulus (conditioned stimulus; CS) that results from pairing that …

Prevailing models of exposure therapy for phobias and anxiety disorders construe level of
fear throughout exposure trials as an index of corrective learning. However, the evidence …

The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative
learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional …

This article reviews research over the past decade concerning the relationship between
Pavlovian conditioning and conscious awareness. The review covers autonomic …

Fear conditioning is one of the prime paradigms of behavioural neuroscience and a source
of tremendous insight in the fundamentals of learning and memory and the psychology and …

Objective: To provide an overview of startle reflex methodologies applied to the examination
of emotional and motivational states in humans and to review the findings in different forms …

Panic disorder and agoraphobia tend to be chronic conditions, often with an unremitting
course, considerable social, occupational, and physical disability, and high rates of …

The aim of this article is to review studies on human anxiety using the startle reflex
methodology and to apply the literature on context conditioning in rats to interpret the results …

Clinically, there is wide subscription to emotional processing theory (EPT; Foa & Kozak,
1986) as a model of therapeutic effectiveness of exposure therapy: EPT purports that …