An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning
The current thesis investigated the influence of instructed extinction on conditional stimulus (CS) valence and physiological responding in human differential fear conditioning. Instructed extinction reduced differential physiological responding, but did not affect CS valence evaluations. The resul...
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Curtin University
2016
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| author | Luck, Camilla Crystal |
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| description | The current thesis investigated the influence of instructed extinction on conditional stimulus (CS) valence and physiological responding in human differential fear conditioning. Instructed extinction reduced differential physiological responding, but did not affect CS valence evaluations. The results were not mediated by a general reduction in arousal levels and suggest that cognitive interventions targeting expectations of the unconditional stimulus occurring reduce heightened physiological responses but do not influence the subjective dislike of the feared stimulus. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-14372018-11-07T05:30:23Z An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning Luck, Camilla Crystal The current thesis investigated the influence of instructed extinction on conditional stimulus (CS) valence and physiological responding in human differential fear conditioning. Instructed extinction reduced differential physiological responding, but did not affect CS valence evaluations. The results were not mediated by a general reduction in arousal levels and suggest that cognitive interventions targeting expectations of the unconditional stimulus occurring reduce heightened physiological responses but do not influence the subjective dislike of the feared stimulus. 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1437 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Luck, Camilla Crystal An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title | An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title_full | An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title_fullStr | An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title_full_unstemmed | An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title_short | An investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| title_sort | investigation into the effects of instructed extinction on physiological responding and conditional stimulus valence in human differential fear conditioning |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1437 |