Implications of Emotion Regulation for the Shift From Normative Fear-Relevant Learning to Anxiety-Related Psychopathology

Replies to the article by Mineka and Zinbarg (see record 2006-00920-002), which illustrated how a contemporary learning theory informs the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. In our view, the challenge facing contemporary learning theory is to explain how and why potentiated fear conditioning is problematic and capable of yielding an anxiety disorder. Neither potentiated fear and fear learning itself, nor individual differences that potentiate both, explain how an anxiety disorder develops. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)