ArticleClinical neuropsychiatry2023
Evidence of Altered Fear Extinction Learning in Individuals with High Vaccine Hesitancy During Covid-19 Pandemic.
Article in Clinical neuropsychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Editorial: The social brain: new insights from social, clinical, and biological psychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Individual predictors of vaccine hesitancy in the Italian post COVID-19 pandemic era.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Treating Fear of Contamination Disorders: A Systematic Review of Healthy and Clinical Populations.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Targeting Human Glucocorticoid Receptors in Fear Learning: A Multiscale Integrated Approach to Study Functional Connectivity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- From real to virtual prism adaptation therapy: a systematic review on benefits and challenges of a new potential rehabilitation approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- PanicRoom: a virtual reality-based Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The power of belief? Evidence of reduced fear extinction learning in Catholic God believers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Role of Serotonin in Fear Learning and Memory: A Systematic Review of Human Studies.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance: a comparative analysis of face-to face and online assessment.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Objective: A relevance of fear and concerns about vaccine development and its side effects are suggested to explain COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. However, evidence supporting the phobic origin hypothesis of hesitancy for COVID-19 and other vaccinations remains indirect and elusive. Method: We addressed this issue by investigating the existence of a relationship between fear conditioning, extinction, and the respective vaccination hesitancy and anxiety scores in a group of 25 individuals. Results: Overall, we show that the general mechanism of fear extinction learning is impaired in individuals with high vaccine hesitancy. State and trait anxiety scores do not account for this result. Conclusions: These findings suggest that attitudes against vaccination could be linked to an altered inhibitory learning process.
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