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Bending rules: the shape of the perceptual generalisation gradient is sensitive to inference rules

Yannick BoddezDepartment of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Marc Patrick BennettDepartment of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-7217-4059View further author information
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Silke van EschDepartment of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumView further author information
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Tom BeckersDepartment of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center and Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9581-1505View further author information
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Pages 1444-1452 | Received 27 May 2015, Accepted 19 Aug 2016, Published online: 28 Sep 2016

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Yu Gao, Shaochen Zhao, Zifan Yang, Haote Fu, Keying Luo, Wei Chen, Min Fan, Yidan Song & Xifu Zheng. (2023) Role of Cue Training, Context, and Stimulus Intensity on Fear Generalization in Humans. Behavioral Sciences 13:6, pages 479.
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Tal Moran, Yahel NudlerYoav Bar-Anan. (2023) Evaluative Conditioning: Past, Present, and Future. Annual Review of Psychology 74:1, pages 245-269.
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Sara Scheveneels & Yannick Boddez. 2023. Interpretational Processing Biases in Emotional Psychopathology. Interpretational Processing Biases in Emotional Psychopathology 117 137 .
Yannick Boddez, Martin Finn & Jan De Houwer. (2021) The (shared) features of fear: Toward the source of human fear responding. Current Opinion in Psychology 41, pages 113-117.
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Ann-Kathrin Zenses, Frank Baeyens, Tom Beckers & Yannick Boddez. (2021) Thought Conditioning: Inducing and Reducing Thoughts About the Aversive Outcome in a Fear-Conditioning Procedure. Clinical Psychological Science 9:2, pages 252-269.
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Alex H.K. Wong & Tom Beckers. (2021) Trait anxiety is associated with reduced typicality asymmetry in fear generalization. Behaviour Research and Therapy 138, pages 103802.
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Jonas Zaman, Anastasia Chalkia, Ann-Kathrin Zenses, Antoine Selim Bilgin, Tom Beckers, Bram Vervliet & Yannick Boddez. (2020) Perceptual variability: Implications for learning and generalization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 28:1, pages 1-19.
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Marc P Bennett, Bryan Roche, Simon Dymond, Frank Baeyens, Bram Vervliet & Dirk Hermans. (2020) Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalised avoidance in new contexts. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 73:12, pages 2119-2131.
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Geeske Peeters, Marc Bennett, Orna A. Donoghue, Sean Kennelly & Rose Anne Kenny. (2020) Understanding the aetiology of fear of falling from the perspective of a fear-avoidance model – A narrative review. Clinical Psychology Review 79, pages 101862.
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Ann‐Kathrin Zenses, Bert Lenaert, Philippe Peigneux, Tom Beckers & Yannick Boddez. (2019) Sleep deprivation increases threat beliefs in human fear conditioning. Journal of Sleep Research 29:3.
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Yannick Boddez, Agnes Moors, Gaëtan Mertens & Jan De Houwer. (2020) Tackling fear: Beyond associative memory activation as the only determinant of fear responding. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 112, pages 410-419.
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Yannick Boddez, Mathilde Descheemaeker, Gaëtan Mertens, Astrid Truyts & Sander Van de Cruys. (2019) Like what you see: Generalization of social learning determines art appreciation. Acta Psychologica 196, pages 18-25.
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Sara Scheveneels, Yannick Boddez & Dirk Hermans. 2018. The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders. The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders 13 40 .
Alex H.K. Wong & Peter F. Lovibond. (2018) Excessive generalisation of conditioned fear in trait anxious individuals under ambiguity. Behaviour Research and Therapy 107, pages 53-63.
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Yannick Boddez. (2018) The presence of your absence: A conditioning theory of grief. Behaviour Research and Therapy 106, pages 18-27.
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Simon Dymond, Marc Bennett, Sean Boyle, Bryan Roche & Michael Schlund. (2017) Related to Anxiety: Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding and Experimental Psychopathology Research on Fear and Avoidance. Perspectives on Behavior Science 41:1, pages 189-213.
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Leonie Koban, Daniel Kusko & Tor D. Wager. (2018) Generalization of learned pain modulation depends on explicit learning. Acta Psychologica 184, pages 75-84.
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Bert Lenaert, Yannick Boddez, Johan W.S. Vlaeyen & Caroline M. van Heugten. (2018) Learning to feel tired: A learning trajectory towards chronic fatigue. Behaviour Research and Therapy 100, pages 54-66.
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Sara Scheveneels, Yannick Boddez, Marc Patrick Bennett & Dirk Hermans. (2017) One for all: The effect of extinction stimulus typicality on return of fear. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 57, pages 37-44.
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Rivkah Ginat-Frolich, Zohar Klein, Omer Katz & Tomer Shechner. (2017) A novel perceptual discrimination training task: Reducing fear overgeneralization in the context of fear learning. Behaviour Research and Therapy 93, pages 29-37.
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