Return of fear after retrospective inferences about the absence of an unconditioned stimulus during extinction

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 212-218

  Raes, An K ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Verschuere, Bruno ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electrodermal responding; Extinction; Human fear conditioning; Propositions; Retrospective inferences; Return of fear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULATION; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951671976     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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