Using expectation violation models to improve the outcome of psychological treatments

Putting the “mental” back in “mental disorders”: a perspective from research on fear and anxiety

(2022) Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel et al.   MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Heuristics from bounded meta-learned inference.

(2022) Marcel Binz et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

How social rejection expectations and depressive symptoms bi‐directionally predict each other – A cross‐lagged panel analysis

(2022) Lukas Kirchner et al.   PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY-THEORY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Placebo induced expectations of mood enhancement generate a positivity effect in emotional processing

(2022) Joshua Baker et al.   Scientific Reports

Unraveling Negative Expectations and Nocebo-Related Effects in Musculoskeletal Pain

(2022) Giacomo Rossettini et al.   Frontiers in Psychology

Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events

(2022) Anna Weinberg et al.   CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

How to Change Negative Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy? The Role of the Therapist’s Warmth and Competence

(2022) Anna Seewald et al.   Clinical Psychological Science

The Effects of Modifying Dysfunctional Appraisals in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Using a Form of Cognitive Bias Modification: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial in an Inpatient Setting

(2021) Marcella L. Woud et al.   PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS

EXPRESS: Evidence for two attentional mechanisms during learning

(2021) David Torrents-Rodas et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Efficacy of temporally intensified exposure for anxiety disorders: A multicenter randomized clinical trial

(2021) Andre Pittig et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

How negative mood hinders belief updating in depression: results from two experimental studies

(2021) Tobias Kube et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

How the Discrepancy Between Prior Expectations and New Information Influences Expectation Updating in Depression—The Greater, the Better?

(2021) Tobias Kube et al.   Clinical Psychological Science

Predictors of Coping With Expectation Violation: An Integrative Review

(2021) Martin Pinquart et al.   REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

Optimizing Long-term Outcomes of Exposure for Chronic Primary Pain from the Lens of Learning Theory

(2021) Rena Gatzounis et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Look at the Audience? A Randomized Controlled Study of Shifting Attention From Self-Focus to Nonsocial vs. Social External Stimuli During Virtual Reality Exposure to Public Speaking in Social Anxiety

(2021) Theresa F. Wechsler et al.   Frontiers in Psychiatry

A Revised Framework for the Investigation of Expectation Update Versus Maintenance in the Context of Expectation Violations: The ViolEx 2.0 Model

(2021) Christian Panitz et al.   Frontiers in Psychology

Implicit Attitudes Towards Weight, One’s Own Body and its Relation to Food in Women with Overweight and Obesity

(2021) Julia Baur et al.   COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH

Translating Across Circuits and Genetics Toward Progress in Fear- and Anxiety-Related Disorders

(2020) Kerry J. Ressler   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Where perception meets belief updating: Computational evidence for slower updating of visual expectations in anxious individuals

(2020) Jonathon R. Howlett et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy

(2020) Silvia Papalini et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Attentional threat biases and their role in anxiety: A neurophysiological perspective

(2020) Matthias J. Wieser et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

A longitudinal examination of the interpersonal fear avoidance model of pain

(2020) Alexandra Neville et al.   PAIN

All Thinking is ‘Wishful’ Thinking

(2020) Arie W. Kruglanski et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Goal-directed and stimulus-driven selection of internal representations

(2020) Freek van Ede et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of the generic, multidimensional Treatment Expectation Questionnaire (TEX-Q) through systematic literature review, expert surveys and qualitative interviews

(2020) Jannis Alberts et al.   BMJ Open

Learning dynamics of electrophysiological brain signals during human fear conditioning

(2020) Matthias F.J. Sperl et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Implicit Cognition and Psychopathology: Looking Back and Looking Forward

(2019) Bethany A. Teachman et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Attention promotes the neural encoding of prediction errors

(2019) Cooper A. Smout et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Erwartungsfokussierte psychotherapeutische Interventionen bei Personen mit depressiver Symptomatik

(2019) Tobias Kube et al.   VERHALTENSTHERAPIE

Reward expectation facilitates context learning and attentional guidance in visual search

(2019) Nils Bergmann et al.   JOURNAL OF VISION

Cognitive predictors of treatment outcome for exposure therapy: do changes in self-efficacy, self-focused attention, and estimated social costs predict symptom improvement in social anxiety disorder?

(2019) Isabel L. Kampmann et al.   BMC Psychiatry

Augmentation of Extinction and Inhibitory Learning in Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders

(2019) Lauren A.M. Lebois et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

How to modify persisting negative expectations in major depression? An experimental study comparing three strategies to inhibit cognitive immunization against novel positive experiences

(2019) Tobias Kube et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Acceptance and commitment therapy: towards a unified model of behavior change

(2019) Steven C. Hayes   World Psychiatry

Distorted cognitive processes in major depression – A predictive processing perspective

(2019) Tobias Kube et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The treatment expectation questionnaire (TEX-Q) – A generic multidimensional scale measuring patients' treatment expectations

(2019) Meike Shedden-Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

Memory editing from science fiction to clinical practice

(2019) Elizabeth A. Phelps et al.   NATURE

Cue Exposure Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorders: What Can Be Learned from Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders?

(2019) Simon P. Byrne et al.   SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE

Boundary effects of expectation in human pain perception

(2019) E. J. Hird et al.   Scientific Reports

Resolving uncertainty in a social world

(2019) Oriel FeldmanHall et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Driven by Pain not Gain: Computational Approaches to Aversion-Related Decision-Making In Psychiatry

(2019) Martin P. Paulus   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The Misestimation of Uncertainty in Affective Disorders

(2019) Erdem Pulcu et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Making translation work: Harmonizing cross-species methodology in the behavioural neuroscience of Pavlovian fear conditioning

(2019) Jan Haaker et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Fear Extinction Recall Modulates Human Frontomedial Theta and Amygdala Activity

(2018) Matthias F J Sperl et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials

(2018) Joseph K. Carpenter et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Integrating situation-specific dysfunctional expectations and dispositional optimism into the cognitive model of depression – A path-analytic approach

(2018) Tobias Kube et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour

(2018) Joseph LeDoux et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety

(2018) Michelle G. Craske et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why dysfunctional expectations in depression persist – Results from two experimental studies investigating cognitive immunization

(2018) Tobias Kube et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Reducing alcohol-related interpretive bias in negative affect situations: Using a scenario-based Cognitive Bias Modification training paradigm

(2018) Elske Salemink et al.   ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

Implicit but not explicit extinction to threat-conditioned stimulus prevents spontaneous recovery of threat-potentiated startle responses in humans

(2018) Javiera P. Oyarzún et al.   Brain and Behavior

Low back pain

(2018) Johan W. S. Vlaeyen et al.   Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Less is more: Neural activity during very brief and clearly visible exposure to phobic stimuli

(2017) Paul Siegel et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Emotional Modulation of Learning and Memory: Pharmacological Implications

(2017) Ryan T. LaLumiere et al.   PHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Semantics, Surplus Meaning, and the Science of Fear

(2017) Joseph E. LeDoux   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The role of expectations in mental disorders and their treatment

(2017) Winfried Rief et al.   World Psychiatry

Personality and Depression

(2017) R Michael Bagby et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE

Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework

(2016) Joseph E. LeDoux et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Resolving Ambiguity in Emotional Disorders: The Nature and Role of Interpretation Biases

(2016) Colette R. Hirsch et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Nothing is safe: Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with compromised fear extinction learning

(2016) Jayne Morriss et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Uncertainty is associated with increased selective attention and sustained stimulus processing

(2016) Raoul Dieterich et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The key role of extinction learning in anxiety disorders

(2016) Andre Pittig et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY

Spared internal but impaired external reward prediction error signals in major depressive disorder during reinforcement learning

(2016) Jasmina Bakic et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Stress, glucocorticoids and memory: implications for treating fear-related disorders

(2016) Dominique de Quervain et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Cognitive Costs of Reappraisal Depend on Both Emotional Stimulus Intensity and Individual Differences in Habitual Reappraisal

(2016) Catherine Nicole Marie Ortner et al.   PLoS One

Reward devaluation: Dot-probe meta-analytic evidence of avoidance of positive information in depressed persons.

(2016) E. Samuel Winer et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Cognitive Adaptation under Stress: A Case for the Mineralocorticoid Receptor

(2016) Susanne Vogel et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

An Overview of Translationally Informed Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Animal Models of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning to Human Clinical Trials

(2015) Mallory E. Bowers et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Expectancies as core features of mental disorders

(2015) Winfried Rief et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY

Intensive behavioral therapy for agoraphobia

(2015) Inge JE Knuts et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

(2015) Michael Browning et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Stress and Fear Extinction

(2015) Stephen Maren et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A neural reward prediction error revealed by a meta-analysis of ERPs using great grand averages.

(2015) Thomas D. Sambrook et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

One-year-old fear memories rapidly activate human fusiform gyrus

(2015) Erik M. Mueller et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: An Inhibitory Learning and Inhibitory Regulation Approach

(2015) Michelle Craske   VERHALTENSTHERAPIE

A Unifying Probabilistic View of Associative Learning

(2015) Samuel J. Gershman   PLoS Computational Biology

The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project: Precision Medicine for Psychiatry

(2014) Thomas R. Insel   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

How to Use the New DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder Diagnosis in Research and Practice: A Critical Evaluation and a Proposal for Modifications

(2014) Winfried Rief et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Depression, Stress, and Anhedonia: Toward a Synthesis and Integrated Model

(2014) Diego A. Pizzagalli   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Advances in Cognitive Theory and Therapy: The Generic Cognitive Model

(2014) Aaron T. Beck et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND EMOTION REGULATION IN DEPRESSION

(2014) Jutta Joormann et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Attention, predictions and expectations, and their violation: attentional control in the human brain

(2014) Simone Vossel et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The effects of psychotherapies for major depression in adults on remission, recovery and improvement: A meta-analysis

(2014) Pim Cuijpers et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Prefrontal Oscillations during Recall of Conditioned and Extinguished Fear in Humans

(2014) E. M. Mueller et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Expectation in perceptual decision making: neural and computational mechanisms

(2014) Christopher Summerfield et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Coming to terms with fear

(2014) J. E. LeDoux   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

(2013)   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Memory reconsolidation

(2013) Cristina M. Alberini et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A value-driven mechanism of attentional selection

(2013) B. A. Anderson   JOURNAL OF VISION

Implications of memory modulation for post-traumatic stress and fear disorders

(2013) Ryan G Parsons et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Uncertainty and anticipation in anxiety: an integrated neurobiological and psychological perspective

(2013) Dan W. Grupe et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Stressor controllability modulates fear extinction in humans

(2013) Catherine A. Hartley et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant

(2013) J. L. McGaugh   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Neuroimaging of Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis and New Integration of Baseline Activation and Neural Response Data

(2012) J. Paul Hamilton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Cognitive Bias Modification Approaches to Anxiety

(2012) Colin MacLeod et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Anti-anxiety drugs reduce conflict-specific “theta”—A possible human anxiety-specific biomarker

(2012) Neil McNaughton et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Assessing fear and anxiety in humans using the threat of predictable and unpredictable aversive events (the NPU-threat test)

(2012) Anja Schmitz et al.   Nature Protocols

Role of Inhibition in Exposure Therapy

(2012) Michelle G. Craske et al.   Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Stress-induced modulation of instrumental behavior: From goal-directed to habitual control of action

(2011) Lars Schwabe et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality

(2011) Tali Sharot et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Generalized implicit fear associations in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

(2010) Andrea Reinecke et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Dispositional Optimism Predicts Placebo Analgesia

(2010) Andrew L. Geers et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Relapse of Successfully Treated Anxiety and Fear: Theoretical Issues and Recommendations for Clinical Practice

(2009) Mark J. Boschen et al.   AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.

(2009) Jan De Houwer et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition

(2009) Christopher Summerfield et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The free-energy principle: a rough guide to the brain?

(2009) Karl Friston   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Dimensional personality traits and treatment outcome in patients with major depressive disorder

(2007) Lena C. Quilty et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS