Protection from extinction in human fear conditioning

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 967-983

  Lovibond, Peter F ^a   Davis, Natasha R ^a   O’Flaherty, Ailie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE;

EID: 0034309860     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00121-7     Document Type: Article

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