An alternative route to widespread fears: the effects of fear learning on perceptual discrimination KU Leuven
Our fears do not remain specific but tend to spread across stimuli and situations, making fear generalization a key transdiagnostic mechanism underlying multiple disorders. Our recent finding that generalized fears were associated with failures in perceptual discrimination between novel, unthreatening stimuli and threat-associated stimuli has drastically challenged existing conceptions. Combined with research showing the malleability of ...