Cue conditioning using a virtual spider discriminates between high and low spider fearful individuals

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Highlights：

• Fear conditioning paradigms often lack ecological and predictive validity.

• Virtual reality (VR) is a promising technology to improve the validity of fear conditioning.

• Current study investigated cued fear conditioning with a VR spider.

• 25 high spider-fearful and 25 low spider-fearful participants were tested.

• We demonstrate successful fear conditioning, specifically for spider-fearful participants.

摘要

•Fear conditioning paradigms often lack ecological and predictive validity.•Virtual reality (VR) is a promising technology to improve the validity of fear conditioning.•Current study investigated cued fear conditioning with a VR spider.•25 high spider-fearful and 25 low spider-fearful participants were tested.•We demonstrate successful fear conditioning, specifically for spider-fearful participants.

论文关键词：Fear conditioning,Acquisition,Extinction,Spider-related fear,Virtual reality

论文评审过程：Received 12 June 2018, Revised 13 September 2018, Accepted 1 October 2018, Available online 2 October 2018, Version of Record 6 October 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.10.006