期刊
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
卷 113, 期 2, 页码 353-369出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12538
关键词
extinction; extinction retention; intolerance of uncertainty; skin conductance; threat acquisition
资金
- NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation [27567]
- ESRC New Investigator Grant [ES/R01145/1]
Individuals with high intolerance of uncertainty (IU) show reduced threat extinction. Replacing threat associations with novel associations can promote threat extinction retention in individuals with high IU. The novelty facilitated extinction (NFE) effect may be driven more by novelty than reliability.
Individuals who score high in intolerance of uncertainty (IU) display reduced threat extinction. Recently, it was shown that replacing threat associations with novel associations during extinction learning (i.e., presenting a novel tone 100% of the time) can promote threat extinction retention in individuals with high IU. This novelty facilitated extinction (NFE) effect could be driven by the tone's novelty or reliability. Here, we sought to address this question by adjusting the reliability of the novel tone (i.e., the reinforcement rate) during NFE. We measured skin conductance response during an associative learning task in which participants (n = 92) were assigned to one of three experimental groups: standard extinction, NFE 100% reinforcement, or NFE 50% reinforcement. For standard extinction, compared to NFE 100% and 50% reinforcement groups, we observed a trend for greater recovery of the conditioned response during extinction retention. Individuals with high IU relative to low IU in the standard extinction group demonstrated a larger recovery of the conditioned response during extinction retention. These findings tentatively suggest that NFE effects are driven by the novelty rather than the reliability of the new stimulus. The implications of these findings for translational and clinical research in anxiety disorder pathology are discussed.
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