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 …

Therapeutic interventions for disorders of fear and anxiety rely on behavioral approaches
that reduce pathological fear memories. For example, learning that threat-predictive stimuli …

In human research, studies of return of fear (ROF) phenomena, and reinstatement in
particular, began only a decade ago and recently are more widely used, eg, as outcome …

Recent advances in the field of fear learning have demonstrated that a single reminder
exposure prior to extinction training can prevent the return of extinguished fear by disrupting …

Recent data in both rodents and humans suggests that the timing of extinction trials after
conditioning influences the magnitude and duration of extinction. For example …

Fear acquisition and extinction are valid models for the etiology and treatment of anxiety,
trauma-and stressor-related disorders. These disorders are assumed to involve aversive …

Human context conditioning studies have focused on acquisition and extinction. Subsequent
long-term changes in fear behaviors not only depend on associative learning processes …

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

Research on unconscious fear responses has recently been translated into experimental
paradigms for reducing fear that bypass conscious awareness of the phobic stimulus and …

Fear memories are characterized by their permanence and a fierce resistance to unlearning
by new experiences. We considered whether this durability involves a process of memory …