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Spring 2016
Fear and anxiety are highly adaptive emotions that motivate species appropriate responses to threats: immediate and potential. Certain threats, such as ancestral predators, are highly predictable and can be recognized and addressed with innate (inherited) neural systems. This “genetic memory”...
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Fall 2017
In recent years, narratives about various embellished and imaginary risks of vaccination have come under criticism because of their implications for the widespread acceptance of vaccines. Criticisms of these narratives often accompany assumptions that all mainstream health professionals accept,...
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Fall 2011
Chapter 1 will provide a brief introduction to the neurobiology of anxiety, with an emphasis on three issues that have guided the current research. First, behavioral models of anxiety that have been useful in understanding its biological bases will be described. Second, the roles of the septum,...
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Fall 2015
Despite considerable research progress towards characterizing the neurobiology of anxiety, the focus on putative behavioral markers and the absence of a common behavioural/neurobiological signature for the different classes of anxiolytic drugs have potentially slowed research into the neural...
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Optimism, Pessimism, and Terror Management: Evidence That Strategic Optimists Experience DTA Using Incongruent Self-Regulation After Self-esteem Threat
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Terror management theory (TMT) has accumulated a large literature over the past two decades, but has yet to examine whether forms of optimism and pessimism serve a terror management function. The present study tested the death thought accessibility (DTA) hypothesis using a general self-esteem...
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Reactive Risk-taking: Anxiety Regulation via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-taking Behavior
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Experimental research and real-world events demonstrate a puzzling phenomenon—anxiety, which primarily inspires caution, sometimes increases risk-taking. The goal of the present research was to test whether this phenomenon is due to the regulation of anxiety via reactive approach motivation...