Renewal is a 'return of fear'manipulation in human fear conditioning to investigate learning
processes underlying anxiety and trauma. Even though renewal paradigms are widely used …

Objective Fear and anxiety are key maintaining factors for eating disorder (ED) pathology.
Maladaptive fears lead to ED behaviors and avoidance, which provide temporary relief, but …

Background and objectives Fear conditioning paradigms use various measures to assess
learned fear, including autonomic arousal responses like skin conductance, and self-reports …

Fear conditioning is a significant area of research that has featured prominently among the
topics published in Biological Psychology over the last 50 years. This work has greatly …

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by anxiety-driven behaviors, such as food avoidance and
distressing persistent thoughts about weight gain and body image. The present study used a …

The replicability of fear conditioning research has come under recent scrutiny, with
increasing acknowledgment that the use of differing materials and methods may lead to …

Substance use increases throughout adolescence, and earlier substance use may increase
risk for poorer health. However, limited research has examined whether stress responses …

Objectives We aimed to examine differences in fear conditioning between anxious and
nonanxious participants in a single large sample. Materials and methods We employed a …

Exposure-based therapy for anxiety disorders involves confrontations with feared but
innocuous stimuli to promote inhibitory safety learning and fear extinction. Little is known …

Avoidance is an adaptive response to actual or perceived threat. However, persistent
avoidance despite low likelihood of threat can become maladaptive and prevent effective …