Alex H K Wong
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1.
Aslanidou A, Andreatta M, Wong A, Wieser M
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
. 2024 Dec;
20(1).
PMID: 39676581
Fear of threatening contexts often generalizes to similar safe contexts, but few studies have investigated how contextual information influences cue generalization. In this study, we explored whether fear responses to...
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Wong A, Pittig A, Engelhard I
Behav Brain Res
. 2024 Jun;
470:115078.
PMID: 38825020
Safety behaviors are responses that can reduce or even prevent an expected threat. Moreover, empirical studies have shown that using safety behaviors to a learnt safety stimulus can induce threat...
3.
Kesim I, Pittig A, Wong A
Psychol Res
. 2024 Jun;
88(5):1771-1782.
PMID: 38822864
Background And Objectives: Typicality asymmetry in generalization refers to enhanced fear generalization when trained with typical compared to atypical exemplars. Typical exemplars are highly representative of their category, whereas atypical...
4.
Wong A, Franzen M, Wieser M
J Anxiety Disord
. 2024 Feb;
103:102847.
PMID: 38422593
Safety behaviors are often maladaptive in clinical anxiety as they typically persist without realistic threat and cause various impairments. In the laboratory, safety behaviors are modelled by responses to a...
5.
Wong A, van Dis E, Pittig A, Hagenaars M, Engelhard I
Behav Res Ther
. 2023 Nov;
170:104423.
PMID: 37922659
Safety behaviors are behavioral responses that aim to prevent or minimize an imminent threat when confronting a feared stimulus. Despite its adaptive purpose, preliminary evidence suggests that unnecessary safety behaviors...
6.
Aslanidou A, Andreatta M, Wong A, Wieser M
Psychophysiology
. 2023 Aug;
61(1):e14423.
PMID: 37623276
Fear overgeneralization and perceived uncertainty about future outcomes have been suggested as risk factors for clinical anxiety. However, little is known regarding how they influence each other. In this study,...
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Gluck V, Engelke P, Hilger K, Wong A, Boschet J, Pittig A
J Clin Psychol
. 2023 Aug;
80(1):23-38.
PMID: 37531080
Background: Anxiety, approach, and avoidance motivation crucially influence mental and physical health, especially when environments are stressful. The interplay between anxiety and behavioral motivation is modulated by multiple individual factors....
8.
Wong A, Lee J, Engelke P, Pittig A
Behav Res Ther
. 2022 Nov;
160:104233.
PMID: 36450199
Exposure-based treatment involves repeated presentation of feared stimuli or situations in the absence of perceived threat (i.e., extinction learning). However, the stimulus or situation of fear acquisition (CS+) is highly...
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Pittig A, Gluck V, Boschet J, Wong A, Engelke P
Clin Psychol Eur
. 2022 Nov;
3(2):e4221.
PMID: 36397956
Background: Increases in emotional distress in response to the global outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic have been reported. So far, little is known about how anxiety responses in specific...
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Wong A, Pittig A
Behav Res Ther
. 2022 Jul;
156:104158.
PMID: 35835014
Excessive generalization of safety behavior to innocuous stimuli that resemble a feared stimulus is oftentimes pathological especially with inflicted impairments. Safety behavior is conventionally assessed dichotomously, requiring multiple presentations of...