Quantifying aberrant approach-avoidance conflict in psychopathology: A review of computational approaches

AM Letkiewicz, HC Kottler, SA Shankman… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Making effective decisions during approach-avoidance conflict is critical in daily life.
Aberrant decision-making during approach-avoidance conflict is evident in a range of …

Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy

BM Rosenberg, NM Barnes-Horowitz… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are common and highly distressing mental health conditions. Exposure
therapy is a gold-standard treatment for anxiety disorders. Mechanisms of Pavlovian fear …

Hand movement trajectories illustrate the mechanism underlying Kurt Lewin's distinction between approach–approach and avoidance–avoidance motivational …

M Enisman, A Levy, T Kleiman - Journal of Personality and Social …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Classic motivational conflicts theory (Lewin, 1931) distinguishes between approach–
approach, and avoidance–avoidance conflicts. Previous research has focused solely on …

Temporal dynamics of costly avoidance in naturalistic fears: Evidence for sequential-sampling of fear and reward information

JM Boschet-Lange, S Scherbaum, A Pittig - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Excessive avoidance is characteristic for anxiety disorders, even when approach would lead
to positive outcomes. The process of how such approach-avoidance conflicts are resolved is …

[HTML][HTML] Between Scylla and Charybdis: Fixed-ratio avoidance response effort and unavoidable shock extinction in humans

S Dymond, W Xia, DV Zuj, M Quigley - Behavioural Brain Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Avoidance of potential threat may become maladaptive when it is indiscriminate and
resistant to change. Here, we investigated the resistance to change of high and low …

Disentangling decision errors from action execution in mouse-tracking studies: The case of effect-based action control

S Tonn, M Schaaf, W Kunde, R Pfister - Attention, Perception, & …, 2024 - Springer
Mouse-tracking is regarded as a powerful technique to investigate latent cognitive and
emotional states. However, drawing inferences from this manifold data source carries the …

[PDF][PDF] Overcoming Automatic Behavioral Tendencies in Approach-Avoidance Conflict Decisions

M Chen, M Reutter, P Pauli, M Gamer, A Pittig - osf.io
Adequate control over automatic responses to affective stimuli is crucial for adaptive goal-
oriented behavior. However, it remains unclear how individuals overcome automatic …

[PDF][PDF] Exposure Therapy, Journal of Anxiety Disorders,(2024)

Anxiety disorders are among the most common and most disabling mental health conditions
(Yang et al., 2021). Psychological treatments for anxiety are widely studied and supported …