The current review and synthesis was designed to provocatively develop and evaluate the
proposition that “fear of the unknown may be a, or possibly the, fundamental fear”(Carleton …

Uncertainty about a possible future threat disrupts our ability to avoid it or to mitigate its
negative impact and thus results in anxiety. Here, we focus the broad literature on the …

The lack of a vaccine for COVID-19 and the limited amount of reliable data on the cessation
of the disease have made people feel more vulnerable to the disease. As a result, people in …

There is an emerging literature on the mental and physical exhaustion due to the COVID-19
related restrictions. Some individuals seem to exercise fewer precautions recently in …

ÖZET COVID-19 olarak bilinen koronavirüs Çin ve diğer birçok ülkeye çok hızlı bir şekilde
yayılarak akut bulaşıcı bir salgınına neden olmuştur. Bu salgın kısa sürede ülkemize de …

Abstract Interpretation biases have long been theorized to play a central role in depression.
Yet, the strength of the empirical evidence for this bias remains a topic of debate. This meta …

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU)–a dispositional characteristic resulting from negative beliefs
about uncertainty and its implications–may be an important construct in anxiety disorders …

Modern anxiety disorder models implicitly include intolerance of uncertainty (IU) as a critical
component for the development and maintenance of these pervasive social and economic …

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with substantial personal and societal cost
yet is the least successfully treated of the anxiety disorders. In this review, research on …

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been suggested to reflect a specific risk factor for
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but there have been no systematic attempts to evaluate …