Cross-US reinstatement of human conditioned fear: Return of old fears or emergence of new ones?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 313-322

  Sokol, Nicole ^a   Lovibond, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Exposure; Extinction; Fear; Reinstatement; Relapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPECTANCY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; NOISE;

EID: 84859592583     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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