Toward a reliable detection of arachnophobia: subjective, behavioral, and neurophysiological measures of fear response

E Landová, S Rádlová, A Pidnebesna… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… , or activity that poses little or no actual danger (1). It is a type … with indirect measurements
of fear (automatic associations). … increase in brain activation while observing spiders, where …

Exploring the neural basis of fear produced by mental imagery: imaginal exposure in individuals fearful of spiders

JM Hoppe, EA Holmes, T Agren - … of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… intense subjective fear, elevated SCRs, and activated fear-… processing, including conscious
threat appraisal [49,50] and … activity (fMRI) was only measured in session 1. Hence, it was …

Specificity of spiders among fear-and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

E Landová, M Janovcová, I Štolhoferová, S Rádlová… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… experience that is connected with activation of a certain category … set of information thanks
to association of the object with a … attractive to people who indeed fear spiders. A vast majority …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretation biases in childhood spider fear: Content-specificity, priming, and avoidance

AM Klein, RE van Niekerk, M Rinck, E Allart… - Journal of Behavior …, 2024 - Elsevier
… a) test the association between self-reported spider fear and … bias only for stimuli related to
spider-threat. Furthermore, we … negative spider-related endings might have activated the fear

Decrease in amygdala activity during repeated exposure to spider images predicts avoidance behavior in spider fearful individuals

J Björkstrand, T Agren, A Frick, O Hjorth… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
… treatment of spider phobia have generally measured brain … effects of repeated spider
presentations on neural activation and … significant association between amygdala reductions to …

[HTML][HTML] Contributions of diagnostic, cognitive, and somatovisceral information to the prediction of fear ratings in spider phobic and non-spider-fearful individuals

T Aue, ME Hoeppli, F Scharnowski, D Steyrl - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
… into variations in fear levels and their associations with … rating scales assessing perceived
threat. We hypothesized that … measures may assist the prediction of phobic fear (in addition to …

Nothing to fear but fear itself: A mechanistic test of unconscious exposure

P Siegel, B Cohen, R Warren - Biological psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
… , VBE strongly activated brain regions supporting fear processing (eg, … fear responses that
reinforce stimulus→fear associations, a … , we measured avoidance and experienced fear of the …

Attentional, emotional, and behavioral response toward spiders, scorpions, crabs, and snakes provides no evidence for generalized fear between spiders and …

E Landová, I Štolhoferová, B Vobrubová, J Polák… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… did not affect individual reactions to scorpions measured by … relevant threatening animal
stimuli are thought to activate the fear … In short, subjectively feared spiders distracted participants …

Cockroaches are scarier than snakes and spiders: Validation of an affective standardized set of animal images (ASSAI)

J Grimaldos, A Duque, M Palau-Batet… - Behavior Research …, 2021 - Springer
… ratings) in order to assess the association of these variables. … and activation-deactivation),
the discrete emotions such as fear, … and sensitivity to disgust measures were included in this …

To approach or to avoid: The role of ambivalent motivation in attentional biases to threat and spider fear

M Xu, K Rowe, C Purdon - Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2021 - Springer
… They found small to moderate associations between … to detect fear activation and habituation
using these measures. … to use the gift cards as a control object, gift cards and spider were …