List of works - Bram Vervliet

"Why is everyone always angry with me?!": When thinking 'why' leads to generalization.

scientific article published on 22 November 2014

A learning theory of attachment: Unraveling the black box of attachment development

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions.

scientific article published on January 2014

Amygdala where art thou?

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

An integrative review of attention biases and their contribution to treatment for anxiety disorders

scientific article

Aversive Stimulus Pairings Are an Unnecessary and Insufficient Cause of Pathological Anxiety

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Aversive learning and generalization predict subclinical levels of anxiety: a six-month longitudinal study

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Avoidance Learning as Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress in Firefighters

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Beyond Extinction: Prolonged Conditioning and Repeated Threat Exposure Abolish Contextual Renewal of Fear-Potentiated Startle Discrimination but Leave Expectancy Ratings Intact.

scientific article

Beyond extinction: Habituation eliminates conditioned skin conductance across contexts

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear

scientific article

Bifidobacterium longum 1714 Does Not Modulate Reactivity to Social Stress

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Blocking of conditioned inhibition in human causal learning: No learning about the absence of outcomes.

scientific article published in January 2009

Brain and Behavior Changes following Exposure Therapy Predict Outcome at 8-Year Follow-Up

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Colon-delivered short-chain fatty acids attenuate the cortisol response to psychosocial stress in healthy men: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Common and distinct neural correlates of fear extinction and cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Concurrent excitors limit the extinction of conditioned fear in humans.

scientific article published on 4 April 2006

Conditioned Fear Acquisition and Generalization in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

scientific article

Conditioned Subjective Responses to Socially Relevant Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder and Subclinical Social Anxiety

scientific article published on 26 January 2014

Conditioned fear extinction and reinstatement in a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm

scientific article

Contextual control over expression of fear is affected by cortisol

scientific article

Contextual fear induced by unpredictability in a human fear conditioning preparation is related to the chronic expectation of a threatening US.

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Correction to 'State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety'

article

Criteria of validity in experimental psychopathology: application to models of anxiety and depression ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Defensive activation to (un)predictable interoceptive threat: The NPU respiratory threat test (NPUr).

scientific article

Dissociable roles for the hippocampus and the amygdala in human cued versus context fear conditioning.

scientific article published in September 2008

Does fear extinction in the laboratory predict outcomes of exposure therapy? A treatment analog study

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Emotional attentional control predicts changes in diurnal cortisol secretion following exposure to a prolonged psychosocial stressor

scientific article

Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus.

scientific article

Exposure to the context and removing the unpredictability of the US: two methods to reduce contextual anxiety compared.

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Extinction, generalization, and return of fear: a critical review of renewal research in humans.

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

Eye movement during recall reduces objective memory performance: An extended replication.

scientific article published on 09 March 2017

Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Fear extinction and relapse: state of the art.

scientific article published on January 2013

Fear extinction in the human brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in healthy participants.

scientific article

Fear generalization in humans: Impact of prior non-fearful experiences.

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Fear generalization in humans: impact of feature learning on conditioning and extinction.

scientific article

Fear generalization in humans: impact of verbal instructions.

scientific article published on 11 September 2009

Further characterization of relief dynamics in the conditioning and generalization of avoidance: Effects of distress tolerance and intolerance of uncertainty

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Generalization gradients for acquisition and extinction in human contingency learning.

scientific article published in January 2006

Generalization gradients in cued and contextual pain-related fear: an experimental study in healthy participants

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Generalization of Fear to Respiratory Sensations

scientific article

Generalization of conditioned responding: effects of autobiographical memory specificity

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

Generalization of extinguished skin conductance responding in human fear conditioning

scientific article published in September 2004

Generalization of human fear acquisition and extinction within a novel arbitrary stimulus category.

scientific article

Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation revisited: A meta-analysis of successful and failed replications.

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation.

scientific article published in November 2010

Gradients of fear: How perception influences fear generalization.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

High avoidance despite low fear of a second-order conditional stimulus

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the positive affective processing of safety signals

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Imagery Rescripting Versus Extinction: Distinct and Combined Effects on Expectancy and Revaluation Learning

scientific article published in 2021

Increasing predictive estimations without further learning: the peak-shift effect.

scientific article published in January 2014

Intolerance of uncertainty as a vulnerability factor for excessive and inflexible avoidance behavior.

scientific article published in March 2018

Learning and memory in conditioned fear extinction: effects of D-cycloserine.

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Living in fear: Low-cost avoidance maintains low-level threat

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Low-Cost Avoidance Behaviors are Resistant to Fear Extinction in Humans.

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Maximizing exposure therapy: an inhibitory learning approach

scientific article

Maximizing the generalization of fear extinction: Exposures to a peak generalization stimulus

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Memories of 100 years of human fear conditioning research and expectations for its future

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Mixed evidence for the potential of non-invasive transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation to improve the extinction and retention of fear.

scientific article

Modeling Hierarchical Versus Random Exposure Schedules in Pavlovian Fear Extinction: No Evidence for Differential Fear Outcomes

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Negative reinforcement rate and persistent avoidance following response-prevention extinction

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Neural responses during extinction learning predict exposure therapy outcome in phobia: results from a randomized-controlled trial

scientific article published on 28 July 2019

Neural signatures of human fear conditioning: an updated and extended meta-analysis of fMRI studies

scientific article

One-trial overshadowing: Evidence for fast specific fear learning in humans.

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Partial reinforcement of avoidance and resistance to extinction in humans.

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Paul Eelen: Reflections on Life and Work.

scientific article

Perceptual discrimination in fear generalization: Mechanistic and clinical implications.

scientific article

Perceptual errors are related to shifts in generalization of conditioned responding

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Perceptual variability: Implications for learning and generalization

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Pharmacological enhancers of psychotherapeutical processes: the placebo problem

scientific article published on 18 June 2008

Preexposure to (un)predictable shock modulates discriminative fear learning between cue and context: an investigation of the interaction between fear and anxiety.

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

Prevention and treatment strategies for contextual overgeneralization.

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Probing the role of perception in fear generalization

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Prospective intolerance of uncertainty is associated with maladaptive temporal distribution of avoidance responses: An extension of Flores, López, Vervliet, and Cobos (2018)

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

Reduced autobiographical memory specificity is associated with impaired discrimination learning in anxiety disorder patients

scientific article

Reduced return of threat expectancy after counterconditioning verus extinction

scientific article published on 26 June 2018

Reducing chronic anxiety by making the threatening event predictable: an experimental approach.

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Reinstatement after human feature-positive discrimination learning.

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Repeated Activation of a CS-US-Contingency Memory Results in Sustained Conditioned Responding

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Resistance to extinction in evaluative conditioning.

scientific article published in January 2006

Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

scientific article published in March 2005

Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a stimulus change after extinction

scientific article published in March 2005

Safety behavior can hamper the extinction of fear of movement-related pain: an experimental investigation in healthy participants.

scientific article published on 4 August 2012

State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety.

scientific article published in March 2018

Stimulus generalization and return of fear in C57BL/6J mice ⬇️

scientific article published on July 16, 2012

Stronger renewal in human fear conditioning when tested with an acquisition retrieval cue than with an extinction retrieval cue.

scientific article published on 2 February 2006

T17. Are Emotional Regulation and Extinction Learning the Same in the Brain? A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Studies

scholarly article

Temporal dynamics of relief in avoidance conditioning and fear extinction: Experimental validation and clinical relevance.

scientific article published on 23 April 2017

The Effect of Outcome Probability on Generalization in Predictive Learning

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

The development of cued versus contextual conditioning in a predictable and an unpredictable human fear conditioning preparation.

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

The diagnostic value of brain-fatty acid binding protein in traumatic brain injury

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

The effect of glucose on hippocampal-dependent contextual fear conditioning.

scientific article

The effects of age and trait anxiety on avoidance learning and its generalization

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

The key role of extinction learning in anxiety disorders: behavioral strategies to enhance exposure-based treatments.

scientific article

The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders.

scientific article published on January 2014

The predictive value of neural reward processing on exposure therapy outcome: Results from a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

The repeated confrontation with videotapes of spiders in multiple contexts attenuates renewal of fear in spider-anxious students.

scientific article published on 13 October 2006

The role of short-chain fatty acids in microbiota-gut-brain communication

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

The validity of human avoidance paradigms

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

The validity of laboratory-based treatment research: Bridging the gap between fear extinction and exposure treatment

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Timing of extinction relative to acquisition: a parametric analysis of fear extinction in humans.

scientific article

Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviors reduces generalized avoidance in new contexts

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Translation: That's the question ⬇️

scientific article published on November 19, 2012

Verbal, behavioural and physiological assessment of the generalization of exposure-based fear reduction in a spider-anxious population.

scientific article published on 4 May 2006

List of works by Bram Vervliet

"Why is everyone always angry with me?!": When thinking 'why' leads to generalization.

A learning theory of attachment: Unraveling the black box of attachment development

Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions.

Amygdala where art thou?

An integrative review of attention biases and their contribution to treatment for anxiety disorders

Aversive Stimulus Pairings Are an Unnecessary and Insufficient Cause of Pathological Anxiety

Aversive learning and generalization predict subclinical levels of anxiety: a six-month longitudinal study

Avoidance Learning as Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress in Firefighters

Beyond Extinction: Prolonged Conditioning and Repeated Threat Exposure Abolish Contextual Renewal of Fear-Potentiated Startle Discrimination but Leave Expectancy Ratings Intact.

Beyond extinction: Habituation eliminates conditioned skin conductance across contexts

Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear

Bifidobacterium longum 1714 Does Not Modulate Reactivity to Social Stress

Blocking of conditioned inhibition in human causal learning: No learning about the absence of outcomes.

Brain and Behavior Changes following Exposure Therapy Predict Outcome at 8-Year Follow-Up

Colon-delivered short-chain fatty acids attenuate the cortisol response to psychosocial stress in healthy men: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Common and distinct neural correlates of fear extinction and cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies

Concurrent excitors limit the extinction of conditioned fear in humans.

Conditioned Fear Acquisition and Generalization in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Conditioned Subjective Responses to Socially Relevant Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder and Subclinical Social Anxiety

Conditioned fear extinction and reinstatement in a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm

Contextual control over expression of fear is affected by cortisol

Contextual fear induced by unpredictability in a human fear conditioning preparation is related to the chronic expectation of a threatening US.

Correction to 'State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety'

Criteria of validity in experimental psychopathology: application to models of anxiety and depression ⬇️

Defensive activation to (un)predictable interoceptive threat: The NPU respiratory threat test (NPUr).

Dissociable roles for the hippocampus and the amygdala in human cued versus context fear conditioning.

Does fear extinction in the laboratory predict outcomes of exposure therapy? A treatment analog study

Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy

Emotional attentional control predicts changes in diurnal cortisol secretion following exposure to a prolonged psychosocial stressor

Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus.

Exposure to the context and removing the unpredictability of the US: two methods to reduce contextual anxiety compared.

Extinction, generalization, and return of fear: a critical review of renewal research in humans.

Eye movement during recall reduces objective memory performance: An extended replication.

Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research.

Fear extinction and relapse: state of the art.

Fear extinction in the human brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in healthy participants.

Fear generalization in humans: Impact of prior non-fearful experiences.

Fear generalization in humans: impact of feature learning on conditioning and extinction.

Fear generalization in humans: impact of verbal instructions.

Further characterization of relief dynamics in the conditioning and generalization of avoidance: Effects of distress tolerance and intolerance of uncertainty

Generalization gradients for acquisition and extinction in human contingency learning.

Generalization gradients in cued and contextual pain-related fear: an experimental study in healthy participants

Generalization of Fear to Respiratory Sensations

Generalization of conditioned responding: effects of autobiographical memory specificity

Generalization of extinguished skin conductance responding in human fear conditioning

Generalization of human fear acquisition and extinction within a novel arbitrary stimulus category.

Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation revisited: A meta-analysis of successful and failed replications.

Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation.

Gradients of fear: How perception influences fear generalization.

High avoidance despite low fear of a second-order conditional stimulus

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the positive affective processing of safety signals

Imagery Rescripting Versus Extinction: Distinct and Combined Effects on Expectancy and Revaluation Learning

Increasing predictive estimations without further learning: the peak-shift effect.

Intolerance of uncertainty as a vulnerability factor for excessive and inflexible avoidance behavior.

Learning and memory in conditioned fear extinction: effects of D-cycloserine.

Living in fear: Low-cost avoidance maintains low-level threat

Low-Cost Avoidance Behaviors are Resistant to Fear Extinction in Humans.

Maximizing exposure therapy: an inhibitory learning approach

Maximizing the generalization of fear extinction: Exposures to a peak generalization stimulus

Memories of 100 years of human fear conditioning research and expectations for its future

Mixed evidence for the potential of non-invasive transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation to improve the extinction and retention of fear.

Modeling Hierarchical Versus Random Exposure Schedules in Pavlovian Fear Extinction: No Evidence for Differential Fear Outcomes

Negative reinforcement rate and persistent avoidance following response-prevention extinction

Neural responses during extinction learning predict exposure therapy outcome in phobia: results from a randomized-controlled trial

Neural signatures of human fear conditioning: an updated and extended meta-analysis of fMRI studies

One-trial overshadowing: Evidence for fast specific fear learning in humans.

Partial reinforcement of avoidance and resistance to extinction in humans.

Paul Eelen: Reflections on Life and Work.

Perceptual discrimination in fear generalization: Mechanistic and clinical implications.

Perceptual errors are related to shifts in generalization of conditioned responding

Perceptual variability: Implications for learning and generalization

Pharmacological enhancers of psychotherapeutical processes: the placebo problem

Preexposure to (un)predictable shock modulates discriminative fear learning between cue and context: an investigation of the interaction between fear and anxiety.

Prevention and treatment strategies for contextual overgeneralization.

Probing the role of perception in fear generalization

Prospective intolerance of uncertainty is associated with maladaptive temporal distribution of avoidance responses: An extension of Flores, López, Vervliet, and Cobos (2018)

Reduced autobiographical memory specificity is associated with impaired discrimination learning in anxiety disorder patients

Reduced return of threat expectancy after counterconditioning verus extinction