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AU Mertens, G
   Van Dessel, P
   De Houwer, J
AF Mertens, Gaetan
   Van Dessel, Pieter
   De Houwer, Jan
TI The contextual malleability of approach-avoidance training effects:
   approaching or avoiding fear conditioned stimuli modulates effects of
   approach-avoidance training
SO COGNITION & EMOTION
LA English
DT Article
DE Approach-avoidance training; implicit; explicit; evaluations; context;
   fear
ID IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; RACIAL-ATTITUDES; BEHAVIOR; FAILURES;
   ALCOHOL; VALENCE
AB Previous research showed that the repeated approaching of one stimulus and avoiding of another stimulus typically leads to more positive evaluations of the former stimuli. In the current study, we examined whether approach and avoidance training (AAT) effects on evaluations of neutral stimuli can be modulated by introducing a regularity between the approach-avoidance actions and a positive or negative (feared) stimulus. In an AAT task, participants repeatedly approached one neutral non-word and avoided another neutral non-word. Half of the participants also approached a negative fear-conditioned stimulus (CS+) and avoided a conditioned safe stimulus (CS-). The other half of the participants avoided the CS+ and approached the CS-. Whereas participants in the avoid CS+ condition exhibited a typical AAT effect, participants in the approach CS+ condition exhibited a reversed AAT effect (i.e. they evaluated the approached neutral non-word as more negative than the avoided non-word). These findings provide evidence for the malleability of the AAT effect when strongly valenced stimuli are approached or avoided. We discuss the practical and theoretical implications of our findings.
C1 [Mertens, Gaetan; Van Dessel, Pieter; De Houwer, Jan] Univ Ghent, Dept Expt Clin & Hlth Psychol, Ghent, Belgium.
   [Mertens, Gaetan] Univ Utrecht, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, Utrecht, Netherlands.
RP Mertens, G (reprint author), Univ Ghent, Dept Expt Clin & Hlth Psychol, Ghent, Belgium.; Mertens, G (reprint author), Univ Utrecht, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, Utrecht, Netherlands.
EM g.mertens@uu.nl
OI Van Dessel, Pieter/0000-0002-3401-780X; De Houwer,
   Jan/0000-0003-0488-5224
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PU ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
PI ABINGDON
PA 2-4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND
SN 0269-9931
EI 1464-0600
J9 COGNITION EMOTION
JI Cogn. Emot.
PY 2018
VL 32
IS 2
BP 341
EP 349
DI 10.1080/02699931.2017.1308315
PG 9
WC Psychology, Experimental
SC Psychology
GA FZ6CU
UT WOS:000427685400009
PM 28345433
DA 2018-07-05
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