Browsing by Subject "Fear"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(2019-09-13)Department: NeuroscienceAcquisition and extinction of learned fear responses utilize flexible yet conserved neural circuits that promote or suppress fear expression, respectively. Here we show that acquisition of passive fear behavior is associated ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-10-09)
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)In this brief Comment, Maroney offers a perspective based in the scientific study of fear and social-group judgment. She discusses research showing that humans display heightened, persistent fear responses to "outgroup" ...