Abstract Purpose of Review Current theories of alcohol use disorders (AUD) highlight the
importance of Pavlovian and instrumental learning processes mainly based on preclinical …

Appetitive Pavlovian conditioning is a learning mechanism of fundamental biological and
pathophysiological significance. Nonetheless, its exploration in humans remains sparse …

Acquired fear responses often generalize from conditioned stimuli (CS) towards perceptually
similar, but harmless generalization stimuli (GS). Knowledge on similarities between CS and …

Learning accounts of addiction and obesity emphasize the persistent power of Pavlovian
reward cues to trigger craving and increase relapse risk. While extinction can reduce …

Appetitive conditioning plays an important role in the development and maintenance of
pornography‐use and gaming disorders. It is assumed that primary and secondary …

Previous research demonstrates that aversive stimuli can interrupt appetitive processing and
that brain regions involved with the processing of potential rewards, such as the ventral …

A stimulus (conditioned stimulus, CS) associated with an appetitive unconditioned stimulus
(US) acquires positive properties and elicits appetitive conditioned responses (CR). Such …

While the examination of conditioned cardiac responses is well established in human fear
conditioning research, comparable studies using less‐aversive or rather appetitive …

Previous research has linked sensation seeking with a heightened risk for drug abuse and
other risk-taking behavior. As appetitive conditioning presents a model for the etiology and …

Background Prior research suggests naturalistic single-trial appetitive conditioning may be a
potent phenomenon in humans, capable of modulating both motivation and attention. In this …