EAGER: Extinction, Avoidance and Generalization in Emotional disoRders. KU Leuven
Laboratory for Biological Psychology, Centre for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology
The prevalence of anxiety-related disorders (e.g. panic disorder, phobias, PTSD, …) is high. Particularly from a fear learning perspective, there has been considerable advancement in the understanding of the mechanisms that play a role in their etiology, maintenance and treatment. Three core mechanisms have surfaced as fundamental here: extinction, generalization and avoidance. Individual differences in these mechanisms are assumed to be ...