Following Shanks and Darby (1998), participants in our experiments had to learn that single cues that signalled the same outcome (e.g., A-1/B-1) predicted the opposite outcome when presented in compound (e.g., AB-2). Some ...

In an experiment that used the inconsistency paradigm, experienced clinical psychologists and psychology students performed a reading task using clinical reports and a diagnostic judgment task. The clinical reports ...

Recent studies have shown that avoidance behavior may become excessive and inflexible (i.e., detached from its incentive value and resistant to extinction). On the other hand, prospective intolerance of uncertainty (P-IU) ...

La pérdida de un ser querido puede conllevar un duelo con síntomas psicológicos y de salud física relacionados con variables implicadas tanto del fallecido, como del doliente y de las circunstancias que rodean a la muerte. ...

Al realizar una revisión del proceso migratorio es fácil descubrir las duras consecuencias que ello abarca, el choque de varias culturas se caracteriza por el reajuste posterior de ambas, pero en este caso, podemos apreciar ...

The study of avoidance behaviour is considered relevant to improve our understanding of anxiety disorders, which are commonly characterized by the presence of undue avoidance behaviours. Flores et al. (2018) found evidence ...

Causal knowledge has been shown to affect diagnostic decisions. It is unclear, however, how causal knowledge affects diagnosis. We hypothesized that it influences intuitive reasoning processes. More precisely, we speculated ...

An experiment conducted with students and experienced clinicians demonstrated very fast and on-line causal reasoning in the diagnosis of DSM-IV mental disorders. The experiment also demonstrated that clinicians’ causal ...

Excessive avoidance is a key feature of pathological anxiety. However, the precise mechanisms underlying the development of excessive avoidance are still unknown. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that excessive ...