Beyond single paradigms, pipelines, and outcomes: Embracing multiverse analyses in psychophysiology

PE Clayson - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Psychophysiological research is an inherently complex undertaking due to the nature of the
data, and its analysis is characterized by many decision points that shape the final dataset …

Multiverse analyses of fear acquisition and extinction retention in posttraumatic stress disorder

MW Lewis, DE Bradford, EF Pace‐Schott… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Persistent fear is a cardinal feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and deficient
fear extinction retention is a proposed illness mechanism and target of exposure‐based …

Trait anxiety is associated with hidden state inference during aversive reversal learning

O Zika, K Wiech, A Reinecke, M Browning… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Updating beliefs in changing environments can be driven by gradually adapting
expectations or by relying on inferred hidden states (ie contexts), and changes therein …

Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research

TB Lonsdorf, A Gerlicher, M Klingelhöfer-Jens… - … Research and Therapy, 2022 - Elsevier
There is heterogeneity in and a lack of consensus on the preferred statistical analyses in
light of a multitude of potentially equally justifiable approaches. Here, we introduce …

Robust group-but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear

M Klingelhöfer-Jens, MR Ehlers, M Kuhn, V Keyaniyan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Here, we follow the call to target measurement reliability as a key prerequisite for individual-
level predictions in translational neuroscience by investigating (1) longitudinal reliability at …

Watching with Argus eyes: Characterization of emotional and physiological responding in adults exposed to childhood maltreatment and/or recent adversity

A Koppold, A Kastrinogiannis, M Kuhn… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to adverse experiences is a well‐established major risk factor for affective
psychopathology. The vulnerability of deleterious sequelae is assumed in maladaptive …

Interpersonal emotion regulation and physiological synchrony: cognitive reappraisal versus expressive suppression

Y Wang, Y Shi - Cognition and Emotion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present study aimed to explore the effectiveness of two typical intrapersonal strategies
(cognitive reappraisal, CR; expressive suppression, ES) on interpersonal emotion regulation …

Navigating the manyverse of skin conductance response quantification approaches–A direct comparison of trough‐to‐peak, baseline correction, and model‐based …

M Kuhn, AMV Gerlicher, TB Lonsdorf - Psychophysiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Raw data are typically required to be processed to be ready for statistical analyses, and
processing pipelines are often characterized by substantial heterogeneity. Here, we applied …

EzySCR: A free and easy tool for scoring event‐related skin conductance responses in the first, second, and third interval latency windows

LJ Ney, JL Pardo, OV Lipp - Psychophysiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Skin conductance is a commonly used physiological measure during psychology
experiments, such as during fear conditioning. Methods for scoring skin conductance …

Fear-potentiated startle reveals diminished threat extinction in pathological anxiety

P Newsome, SG Ruiz, AL Gold, DS Pine… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Major theories propose that perturbed threat learning is central to pathological
anxiety, but empirical support is inconsistent. Failures to detect associations with anxiety …