期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
卷 142, 期 -, 页码 1-9出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.05.013
关键词
Acquisition; Extinction; Threat; Intolerance of uncertainty; Skin conductance
资金
- NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation [27567]
- ESRC New Investigator Grant [ES/R01145/1]
- ESRC [ES/R011451/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Recent evidence suggests that individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty (IUS) are associated with disrupted threat extinction. However, it is unknown what maintains the learned threat association in high IUS individuals: is it the experienced uncertainty during extinction or the combination of experienced uncertainty with potential threat during extinction? Here we addressed this question by running two independent experiments with uncertain auditory stimuli that varied in threat level (Experiment 1, aversive human scream (n = 30); Experiment 2, neutral tone (n = 47) and mildly aversive tone (n = 49)). During the experiments, we recorded skin conductance responses and subjective ratings to the learned cues during acquisition and extinction. In experiment 1, high IUS was associated with heightened skin conductance responding to the learned threat vs. safe cue during extinction. In experiment 2, high IUS was associated only with larger skin conductance responding to the learned cues with more threatening properties during extinction i.e. mildly aversive tone. These findings suggest that uncertainty in combination with threat, even when mild, disrupts extinction in high IUS individuals. Such findings help us understand the link between IUS and threat extinction, and its relevance to anxiety disorder pathology.
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