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SUBMITTER: Mueller EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651612 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20190531 7
In classical fear conditioning, neutral conditioned stimuli that have been paired with aversive physical unconditioned stimuli eventually trigger fear responses. Here, we tested whether aversive mental images systematically paired with a conditioned stimulus also cause de novo fear learning in the absence of any external aversive stimulation. In two experiments (<i>N</i> = 45 and <i>N</i> = 41), participants were first trained to produce aversive, neutral, or no imagery in response to three diff ...[more]