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    Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions

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    Authors
    Luck, C.
    Lipp, Ottmar
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Luck, C. and Lipp, O. 2016. Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions. Australian Journal of Psychology. 68 (3): pp. 209-227.
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Psychology
    DOI
    10.1111/ajpy.12135
    ISSN
    0004-9530
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
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    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Luck, C. and Lipp, O. 2016. Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions. Australian Journal of Psychology. 68 (3): pp. 209-227, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12135. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving at http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22319
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Instructed extinction is an experimental manipulation that involves informing participants after the acquisition of fear learning that the unconditional stimulus (US) will no longer be presented. It has been used as a laboratory analogue to assess the capacity of cognitive interventions to reduce experimentally induced fear. In this review, we examine and integrate research on instructed extinction and discuss its implications for clinical practice. Overall, the results suggest that instructed extinction reduces conditional fear responding and facilitates extinction learning, except when conditional stimulus valence is assessed as an index of fear or when fear is conditioned to images of animal fear-relevant stimuli (snakes and spiders) or with a very intense US. These exceptions highlight potential boundary conditions for the reliance on cognitive interventions when treating fear in clinical settings.

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