Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions
Instructed extinction is an experimental manipulation that involves informing participants after the acquisition of fear learning that the unconditional stimulus (US) will no longer be presented. It has been used as a laboratory analogue to assess the capacity of cognitive interventions to reduce ex...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Published: |
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2016
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22319 |
| _version_ | 1848750837158903808 |
|---|---|
| author | Luck, C. Lipp, Ottmar |
| author_facet | Luck, C. Lipp, Ottmar |
| author_sort | Luck, C. |
| building | Curtin Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Instructed extinction is an experimental manipulation that involves informing participants after the acquisition of fear learning that the unconditional stimulus (US) will no longer be presented. It has been used as a laboratory analogue to assess the capacity of cognitive interventions to reduce experimentally induced fear. In this review, we examine and integrate research on instructed extinction and discuss its implications for clinical practice. Overall, the results suggest that instructed extinction reduces conditional fear responding and facilitates extinction learning, except when conditional stimulus valence is assessed as an index of fear or when fear is conditioned to images of animal fear-relevant stimuli (snakes and spiders) or with a very intense US. These exceptions highlight potential boundary conditions for the reliance on cognitive interventions when treating fear in clinical settings. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T07:43:10Z |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | curtin-20.500.11937-22319 |
| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T07:43:10Z |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-223192019-02-19T05:35:00Z Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions Luck, C. Lipp, Ottmar Instructed extinction is an experimental manipulation that involves informing participants after the acquisition of fear learning that the unconditional stimulus (US) will no longer be presented. It has been used as a laboratory analogue to assess the capacity of cognitive interventions to reduce experimentally induced fear. In this review, we examine and integrate research on instructed extinction and discuss its implications for clinical practice. Overall, the results suggest that instructed extinction reduces conditional fear responding and facilitates extinction learning, except when conditional stimulus valence is assessed as an index of fear or when fear is conditioned to images of animal fear-relevant stimuli (snakes and spiders) or with a very intense US. These exceptions highlight potential boundary conditions for the reliance on cognitive interventions when treating fear in clinical settings. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22319 10.1111/ajpy.12135 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Luck, C. Lipp, Ottmar Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title | Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title_full | Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title_fullStr | Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title_short | Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions |
| title_sort | instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: history, recent developments, and future directions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22319 |