[HTML][HTML] Unconditioned stimulus devaluation decreases the generalization of costly safety behaviors

AHK Wong, M Franzen, MJ Wieser - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Safety behaviors are often maladaptive in clinical anxiety as they typically persist without
realistic threat and cause various impairments. In the laboratory, safety behaviors are …

[HTML][HTML] The generalization of threat beliefs to novel safety stimuli induced by safety behaviors

AHK Wong, A Pittig, IM Engelhard - Behavioural Brain Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Safety behaviors are responses that can reduce or even prevent an expected threat.
Moreover, empirical studies have shown that using safety behaviors to a learnt safety …

[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 …