... in the speed and retention of fear reduction. An individual difference variable that has been demonstrated to be associated with difficulties in safety learning in laboratory paradigms is intolerance of uncertainty, or the incapacity to endure the absence of key information and the corresponding perception...

... have shown evidence for a relationship between IU and threat discrimination learning. Morriss, Christakou, et al. (2016) ) used a fear generalization paradigm to show that high IU was associated with higher threat generalization from threat to safety cues during acquisition. Kanen et al (2021...

... and source are credited. iat automatic evaluations fear instructions evaluative conditioning Since the advent of implicit social cognition, researchers have increasingly relied on implicit measures 1 to assess whether people like or dislike stimuli. Among the plethora of such measures...

... in relation to dehumanization. We examined whether three emotions – anger, disgust, and fear – are associated with dehumanization of social groups. In Experiments 1 and 2 we tested these relationships measuring reactions to real groups. We found that all three emotions were uniquely related to animalistic...