Fear and Anxiety in Virtual Reality Investigations of cue and context conditioning in virtual environment /

• Main Author: Genheimer, Hannah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Biological psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Biological Psychology.

Virtual realities provide an outstanding tool in anxiety research. A fear conditioning study investigates and illustrates the development of anxiety disorders in humans. Hannah Genheimer describes the scientific background of fear and anxiety and presents an empirical study in a highly controlled vi...

Table of Contents:

• From classical conditioning to contextual fear conditioning
• Fear conditioning in virtual reality
• Explicit ratings and physiological data.-Contextual conditioning and anxiety disorders.