ArticlePsychological science2019
Aversive Imagery Causes De Novo Fear Conditioning.
Article in Psychological science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Imagery-based fear conditioning enhances the late positive potential.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- How Temporal Predictability of Threat and Action Preparation Affect Defensive Freezing Responses.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Physiological Processing of Everyday Aversive Mental Imagery.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The conjunction fallacy in rats.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- No trait anxiety influences on early and late differential neuronal responses to aversively conditioned faces across three different tasks.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli.Psychological science · 2022Article
- Mental imagery can generate and regulate acquired differential fear conditioned reactivity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Feeling Safe With Hypnosis: Eliciting Positive Feelings During a Special State of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
In classical fear conditioning, neutral conditioned stimuli that have been paired with aversive physical unconditioned stimuli eventually trigger fear responses. Here, we tested whether aversive mental images systematically paired with a conditioned stimulus also cause de novo fear learning in the absence of any external aversive stimulation. In two experiments (
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