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 …

Why do only some individuals develop pathological anxiety following adverse events? Fear
acquisition, extinction and return of fear paradigms serve as experimental learning models …

Anger and aggression have large impact on people's safety and the society at large. In order
to provide an intervention to minimise aggressive behaviours, it is important to understand …

Surviving threats in the environment requires brain circuits for detecting (or anticipating)
danger and for coordinating appropriate defensive responses (eg, increased cardiac output …

Pictorial stimuli can vary on many dimensions, several aspects of which are captured by the
term 'visual complexity.'Visual complexity can be described as,“a picture of a few objects …

Background Comorbidity of anxiety disorders, stressor-and trauma-related disorders, and
substance use disorders is extremely common. Moreover, therapies that reduce pathological …

The formation and persistence of negative pain-related expectations by classical
conditioning remain incompletely understood. We elucidated behavioural and neural …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a major risk factor for the development of
multiple psychopathological conditions, but the mechanisms underlying this link are poorly …

Negative emotionality is a well-established and stable risk factor for affective disorders.
Individual differences in negative emotionality have been linked to associative learning …

This brief review article will describe treatment approaches for posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) based on findings from basic research. The focus of this review will be fear …