Abstract The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory–Trait version (STAI-T) was developed to measure
an individual's tendency to experience anxiety, but it may lack discriminant evidence of …

The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of
science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to …

The well-replicated observation that many people maintain mental health despite exposure
to severe psychological or physical adversity has ignited interest in the mechanisms that …

Successfully differentiating safety from danger is an essential skill for survival. While
decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is associated with fear …

Why do only some individuals develop pathological anxiety following adverse events? Fear
acquisition, extinction and return of fear paradigms serve as experimental learning models …

Fear motivates different types of defensive behaviors. These behaviors are, however, not
mere byproducts of fear. In this review, we highlight a bi-directional relationship between …

Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for
regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the …

Several labels, such as neuroticism, negative emotionality, and dispositional negativity,
indicate a broad dimension of psychopathology. However, largely separate, often disorder …

Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense,
or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and …

Extinction-resistant fear is considered to be a central feature of pathological anxiety. Here
we sought to determine if individual differences in Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU), a potential …