Evin Aktar
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Recent Articles
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Aktar E, Perez-Edgar K
Adv Psychiatry Behav Health
. 2024 Dec;
4(1):225-233.
PMID: 39629334
Anxiety runs in families, likely reflecting shared genetic risk and shared exposure to signals of threat and fear messaging. Children begin to internalize these signals from the earliest months of...
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Nimphy C, Elzinga B, van der Does W, van Bockstaele B, Perez-Edgar K, Westenberg M, et al.
Dev Psychobiol
. 2024 Jul;
66(6):e22526.
PMID: 38979744
Parental verbal threat (vs. safety) information about strangers may induce fears of these strangers in adolescents. In this multi-method experimental study, utilizing a within-subject design, parents provided standardized verbal threat...
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Aktar E, Venetikidi M, van Bockstaele B, Giessen D, Perez-Edgar K
Dev Psychobiol
. 2024 Jul;
66(6):e22522.
PMID: 38967122
Witnessing emotional expressions in others triggers physiological arousal in humans. The current study focused on pupil responses to emotional expressions in a community sample as a physiological index of arousal...
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Nimphy C, Mitrou V, Elzinga B, van der Does W, Aktar E
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev
. 2024 May;
27(3):714-731.
PMID: 38789695
Children can acquire fears of novel stimuli as a result of listening to parental verbal threat information about these stimuli (i.e., instructional learning). While empirical studies have shown that learning...
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Nimphy C, Venetikidi M, Elzinga B, van der Does W, Aktar E
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev
. 2023 Jul;
26(3):751-772.
PMID: 37500947
Infants can acquire fears vicariously by observing parents' fearful reactions to novel stimuli in everyday situations (i.e., modeling). To date, no systematic or meta-analytic review examined the role of modeling...
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Nimphy C, Elzinga B, van der Does W, Aktar E
J Adolesc
. 2022 Oct;
95(1):147-156.
PMID: 36285347
Introduction: Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the effect of parental verbal threat information on the offspring's fear acquisition of novel stimuli may be causal. The current study investigated this...
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Aktar E, Nimphy C, van Bockstaele B, Perez-Edgar K
Dev Psychobiol
. 2022 Mar;
64(3):e22257.
PMID: 35312048
Parental verbal threat (vs. safety) information regarding the social world may impact a child's fear responses, evident in subjective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological indices of fear. In this study, primary...
8.
Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious Information Processing Biases: An Updated Conceptual Model
Aktar E
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev
. 2022 Feb;
25(1):182-203.
PMID: 35218453
Anxiety disorders are globally one of the most prevalent and disabling forms of psychopathology in adults and children. Having a parent with an anxiety disorder multiplies the risk of anxiety...
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Aktar E, Nimphy C, Kret M, Perez-Edgar K, Bogels S, Raijmakers M
Dev Psychobiol
. 2021 Oct;
63(7):e22190.
PMID: 34674251
Observing others' emotions triggers physiological arousal in infants as well as in adults, reflected in dilated pupil sizes. This study is the first to examine parents' and infants' pupil responses...
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Attention Biases to Threat in Infants and Parents: Links to Parental and Infant Anxiety Dispositions
Aktar E, Nimphy C, Kret M, Perez-Edgar K, Raijmakers M, Bogels S
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
. 2021 Sep;
50(3):387-402.
PMID: 34581933
Parent-to-child transmission of information processing biases to threat is a potential causal mechanism in the family aggregation of anxiety symptoms and traits. This study is the first to investigate the...