Shaking that icky feeling: Effects of extinction and counterconditioning on disgust-related evaluative learning

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 708-719

  Engelhard, Iris M ^a   Leer, Arne ^a   Lange, Emma ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Disgust; Evaluative conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; DISGUST RELATED EVALUATIVE LEARNING; EXPECTANCY LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMOTIONS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; LEARNING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904194744     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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