In human beings, experiments investigating fear conditioning with social stimuli are rare. The current study aims at translating an animal model for social fear conditioning (SFC) to a human sample using an operant SFC paradigm in virtual reality (VR). Forty participants actively (using a joystick) approached virtual male agents that served as conditioned stimuli (CS). During the acquisition phase, unconditioned stimuli (US), a combination of an air blast (5 bar, 10 ms) and a female scream (95 dB, 40 ms), were presented when participants reached a defined proximity to the agent with a contingency of 75% for CS+ agents and never for CS- agents. During the extinction and the test phases, no US was delivered. Outcome variables were pleasantnes...
The current study investigated whether gradually reducing the frequency of aversive stimuli during e...
Attention bias modification (ABM) programs have been considered as a promising new approach for the ...
Excessive avoidance and safety behaviours are a hallmark feature of social anxiety disorder. However...
In human beings, experiments investigating fear conditioning with social stimuli are rare. The curre...
In a previous study we could show that social fear can be induced and extinguished using virtual rea...
In a previous study we could show that social fear can be induced and extinguished using virtual rea...
Women nearly twice as often develop social anxiety disorder (SAD) compared to men. The reason for th...
The vigilance-avoidance hypothesis of selective attention assumes that socially anxious persons init...
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is with 6 – 12 % highly prevalent in the general population and social...
Freezing-like topographies of behavior are elicited in conditioned suppression tasks whereby appetit...
Approach and avoidance of positive and negative social cues are fundamental to prevent isolation and...
Virtual environments (VEs) provide an inexpensive way of conducting ecologically valid psychological...
Conditioned fear can substantially reduce the likelihood that an individual will engage in reward-re...
The widely accepted theory regarding the etiology of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is rooted in lear...
The current thesis investigated the influence of instructed extinction on conditional stimulus (CS) ...
The current study investigated whether gradually reducing the frequency of aversive stimuli during e...
Attention bias modification (ABM) programs have been considered as a promising new approach for the ...
Excessive avoidance and safety behaviours are a hallmark feature of social anxiety disorder. However...
In human beings, experiments investigating fear conditioning with social stimuli are rare. The curre...
In a previous study we could show that social fear can be induced and extinguished using virtual rea...
In a previous study we could show that social fear can be induced and extinguished using virtual rea...
Women nearly twice as often develop social anxiety disorder (SAD) compared to men. The reason for th...
The vigilance-avoidance hypothesis of selective attention assumes that socially anxious persons init...
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is with 6 – 12 % highly prevalent in the general population and social...
Freezing-like topographies of behavior are elicited in conditioned suppression tasks whereby appetit...
Approach and avoidance of positive and negative social cues are fundamental to prevent isolation and...
Virtual environments (VEs) provide an inexpensive way of conducting ecologically valid psychological...
Conditioned fear can substantially reduce the likelihood that an individual will engage in reward-re...
The widely accepted theory regarding the etiology of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is rooted in lear...
The current thesis investigated the influence of instructed extinction on conditional stimulus (CS) ...
The current study investigated whether gradually reducing the frequency of aversive stimuli during e...
Attention bias modification (ABM) programs have been considered as a promising new approach for the ...
Excessive avoidance and safety behaviours are a hallmark feature of social anxiety disorder. However...