The Role of Expectancy Violation in Extinction Learning: A Two-Day Online Fear Conditioning Study [PDF]
[Background] Exposure therapy is at the core of the treatment of pathological anxiety. While the inhibitory learning model proposes a framework for the mechanisms underlying exposure therapy, in particular expectancy violation, causal evidence for its ...
Daniel Gromer +2 more
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Maximizing expectancy violation and exposure outcomes in patients with PTSD [PDF]
Background: It has been proposed that maximizing expectancy violation enhances the efficacy of exposure therapy. The clinical utility of expectancy violation remains unclear and it has not yet been studied in PTSD.Objective: We aimed to test whether ...
Marike J. Kooistra +4 more
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Mechanisms of exposure and response prevention in obsessive-compulsive disorder: effects of habituation and expectancy violation on short-term outcome in cognitive behavioral therapy [PDF]
Background Exposure and response prevention is effective and recommended as the first choice for treating obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). Its mechanisms of action are rarely studied, but two major theories make distinct assumptions: while the ...
Björn Elsner +4 more
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Expectancy Violation Drives Memory Boost for Stressful Events. [PDF]
Stressful events are often vividly remembered. Although generally adaptive to survival, this emotional-memory enhancement may contribute to stress-related disorders. We tested here whether the enhanced memory for stressful events is due to the expectancy
Kalbe F, Bange S, Lutz A, Schwabe L.
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Dogs' expectations about occlusion events: from expectancy violation to exploration. [PDF]
Previous research on human infants has shown that violations of basic physical regularities can stimulate exploration, which may represent a type of hypothesis testing aimed at acquiring knowledge about new causal relationships.
Völter CJ +3 more
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Potential interactive effect of positive expectancy violation and sleep on memory consolidation in dogs [PDF]
In dogs, as in humans, both emotional and learning pretreatment affect subsequent behaviour and sleep. Although learning often occurs in an emotional-social context, the emotion-learning interplay in such context remain mainly unknown.
Vivien Reicher +3 more
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Virtually Unexpected: No Role for Expectancy Violation in Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety [PDF]
In the current study, we examined the role of expectancy violation and retrospective reasoning about the absence of feared outcomes in virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET). Participants fearful of public speaking were asked to give speeches in virtual
Sara Scheveneels +4 more
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Two lab-based experiments (N = 81 and N = 74) examined effects of co-present mobile phone use (frequently conceptualized as ‘phubbing’) on how individuals experience social interactions.
Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele +2 more
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The feedback related negativity encodes both social rejection and explicit social expectancy violation. [PDF]
Humans consistently make predictions about the valence of future events and use feedbacks to update initial predictions. While the valence of outcomes provides utilitarian information, the accuracy of predictions is crucial for future performance ...
Rongjun eYu, Sai eSun
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Expectancy Violations and Discontinuance Behavior in Live-Streaming Commerce: Exploring Human Interactions with Virtual Streamers [PDF]
Virtual streamers, as a typical application of AI-enabled digital humans, are increasingly being utilized in live-streaming commerce due to technological advancements and industry innovations. Although virtual streamers present several benefits, there is
Yanhong Chen, Xiangxia Li
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