Validating the use of a smartphone app for remote administration of a fear conditioning paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Fear conditioning models key processes related to the development, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders and is associated with group differences in anxiety. However, laboratory administration of tasks is time and cost intensive, precluding assessment in large samplesnecessary for the analysis of individual differences. This study introduces a newly developed smartphone app that delivers a fear conditioning paradigm remotely using a loud human scream as an aversive stimulus. Three groups of participants (total n = 152) took part in three studies involving a differential fear conditioning experiment to assess the reliability and validity of a smartphone administered fear conditioning paradigm. This comprised of fear acquisition, generalisation, extinction, and renewal phases during

SUBMITTER: Purves KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6891256 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature