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

It is a defining feature of anxiety disorders that fear is elicited by a circumscribed class of
stimuli rather than by only one specific exemplar of that class. Therefore, fear generalization …

In everyday life, multiple sensory channels jointly trigger emotional experiences and one
channel may alter processing in another channel. For example, seeing an emotional facial …

Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

ABSTRACT Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are often associated with
stress and anxiety-related disorders in adulthood, and learning and memory deficits have …

Our brains rapidly respond to human faces and can differentiate between many identities,
retrieving rich semantic emotional-knowledge information. Studies provide a mixed picture …

Potential threat can prime defensive responding and avoidance behavior, which may result
in the loss of rewards. When aversive consequences do not occur, avoidance should, thus …

Spatial navigation is a basic function for survival, and the ability to retrace a route has direct
relevance for avoiding dangerous places. This study investigates the effects of aversive …

Anxiety can boost the detection of potential threats in many ways. There is evidence that one
and the same facial expression can be perceived differently depending on whether it is seen …

Faces with emotional information–by virtue of their expression or their history of affective
learning–are prioritized during neuronal processing as compared to neutral faces. Classical …