ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2015
Avoidance learning: a review of theoretical models and recent developments.
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122 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Familial risk for bipolar disorder, childhood trauma and anxiety in youth: Behavioral approach and inhibition systems as mediators of risk.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- Devaluation of response-produced safety signals reveals circuits for goal-directed versus habitual avoidance in dorsal striatum.Nature communications · 2026Article
- An avoidance trap? Within-person dynamics between social interaction anxiety and the tendency to avoid physical activity and sport among Chinese university students: a four-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Better Safe Than Sorry? Exploratory Associations Between Fear-Learning Processes and Later Paranoia in Threat-Exposed Adolescents in Standardized Virtual Reality Environments.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2026Article
- The road not taken: selective sampling and persisting inaccurate impressions.Motivation and emotion · 2026Article
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- The High-Risk Model of Threat Perception Modulates Learning of Placebo and Nocebo Effects and Functional Somatic Disorders.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Agent-Based Behavioral Modeling of Human Associative Learning in a Complex Approach-Avoidance Conflict Task.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- A gaze into the void: Anticipatory saccades toward prevented events.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
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- Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pavlovian safety learning: An integrative theoretical review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
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Abstract
Avoidance is a key characteristic of adaptive and maladaptive fear. Here, we review past and contemporary theories of avoidance learning. Based on the theories, experimental findings and clinical observations reviewed, we distill key principles of how adaptive and maladaptive avoidance behavior is acquired and maintained. We highlight clinical implications of avoidance learning theories and describe intervention strategies that could reduce maladaptive avoidance and prevent its return. We end with a brief overview of recent developments and avenues for further research.
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