We describe Affect 4.0, a user-friendly software package for implementing psychological and
psychophysiological experiments. Affect 4.0 can be used to present visual, acoustic, and/or …

Slow breathing is widely applied to improve symptoms of hyperarousal, but it is unknown
whether its beneficial effects relate to the reduction in respiration rate per se, or, to a lower …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human fear conditioning is widely regarded as one of
the prime paradigms for the study of fear and anxiety disorders. We provide an evaluation of …

Lesion studies in animals have identified a critical role of the hippocampus in context fear
conditioning. To extend these findings to human volunteers, we used functional magnetic …

A novel pain-relevant fear conditioning paradigm that demonstrates the involvement of
associative learning in the acquisition of fear of movement-related pain. ABSTRACT Current fear-…

It has been argued that in classical conditioning two processes might be operative. First, one
may learn that the conditioned stimulus (CS+) is a valid predictor for the occurrence of the …

The goal of this volume is to bring together the most recent empirical and theoretical
developments in the basic science of fear learning and to translate these developments to the …

In a differential human fear conditioning paradigm evidence for ABA-renewal was obtained
manipulating the lighting in the experimental room. During acquisition in either a dark or …

In a treatment-analogue experiment, extinction of fear of spiders was investigated in a group
of spider-anxious students. Two groups were created: in the single extinction group the …

Human reasoning is often biased by intuitive beliefs. A key question is whether the bias
results from a failure to detect that the intuitions conflict with logical considerations or from a …