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Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints KU Leuven Ghent University
Don't make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual KU Leuven Ghent University
Thought conditioning: Inducing and reducing thoughts about the aversive outcome in a fear conditioning procedure. KU Leuven Ghent University
Human fear conditioning paradigm is a widely-used procedure to study anxiety. However, merely thinking about the aversive outcome is typically not measured in this procedure. This is surprising because thinking of an aversive event is of clinical relevance (e.g., in the form of intrusions) and of theoretical interest. We present two pre-registered studies that (1) included thinking of an aversive outcome as an additional dependent variable and ...
Lower sleep duration is associated with reduced autobiographical memory specificity KU Leuven
Objective/Background. Sleep can have an important influence on memory. However, it is unclear whether there is any relation between sleep quality and the specificity with which autobiographical memories are retrieved, a key factor associated with vulnerability for, and the presence of, depression and other psychiatric diagnoses. The present study provides the first investigation of the association between sleep quality and autobiographical ...
Experimentele Psychopathologie. KU Leuven
A review on the effects of verbal instructions in human fear conditioning: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and future directions KU Leuven Ghent University
Fear learning reflects the adaptive ability to learn to anticipate aversive events and to display preparatory fear reactions based on prior experiences. Usually, these learning experiences are modeled in the lab with pairings between a neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) (i.e., fear conditioning via CS-US pairings). Nevertheless, for humans, fear learning can also be based on verbal instructions. In this ...