Avoidance is typically adaptive given it prevents threat. However, avoidance becomes
maladaptive when it is executed out of proportion of threat (ie, excessive or insufficient …

Safety behaviors are often maladaptive in clinical anxiety as they typically persist without
realistic threat and cause various impairments. In the laboratory, safety behaviors are …

Background and objectives Typicality asymmetry in generalization refers to enhanced fear
generalization when trained with typical compared to atypical exemplars. Typical exemplars …

Avoiding activities posing bodily threat is adaptive. However, spreading of avoidance to safe
activities may cause functional disability in people with chronic pain. We investigated …

Pain is a signal of (potential) bodily harm. Therefore, it makes sense to avoid movements
that have been experienced with pain–at least until tissues have healed if damage is …

Title How to experimentally induce fear of movement-related pain and measure
psychophysiological and behavioral reactions as ap Page 1 1 Title How to experimentally induce …