Worry as a Predictor of Fear Acquisition in a Nonclinical Sample

People seem to differ in their conditionability, that is, the ease by which fear associations (neutral stimulus–unconditioned stimulus [CS-US] contingencies) are learned. Recently, the level of trait worry has been proposed as a predictor of heightened conditionability. The current research aimed to...

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Affectivity. Emotion
Anxiety
Anxiety - psychology
Behavior modification
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Conditioning
Conditioning, Classical - physiology
Correlation
Economic Climate
Emotions - physiology
Experimental psychology
Facial Expression
Fear
Fear & phobias
Fear - psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Galvanic Skin Response
Human
Humans
Individual Differences
Learning. Memory
Male
Personality. Affectivity
Photic Stimulation
Predictor Variables
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Questionnaires
Reaction Time
Response time
Stimuli
Surveys and Questionnaires
Task Analysis
Worry
Young Adult
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