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2009, 'Link-based learning theory creates more problems than it solves', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, pp. 230 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09001186
,2009, 'Safety behaviours preserve threat beliefs: Protection from extinction of human fear conditioning by an avoidance response', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, pp. 716 - 720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2009.04.013
,2009, 'The propositional nature of human associative learning', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, pp. 183 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000855
,2008, 'A randomized controlled trial of D-cycloserine enhancement of exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder', Biological Psychiatry, 63, pp. 544 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.11.011
,2008, 'Evidence for expectancy as a mediator of avoidance and anxiety in a laboratory model of human avoidance learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, pp. 1199 - 1216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210701503229
,2007, 'A dissociation between causal judgement and the ease with which a cause is categorized with its effect', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, pp. 400 - 417
,2007, 'A randomized controlled trial of the effect of d-cycloserine on exposure therapy for spider fear', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 41, pp. 466 - 471
,2007, 'A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on extinction and fear conditioning in humans', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, pp. 663 - 672
,2007, 'Flavor evaluative conditioning and contingency awareness', Learning and Behavior, 35, pp. 233 - 241
,2006, 'Anxiety, depression, and tension/stress in children', Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, pp. 195 - 205
,2006, 'Cognitive biases in childhood anxiety, depression and aggression: Are they pervasive or specific?', Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, pp. 531 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9077-y
,2006, 'Extinction in human fear conditioning', Biological Psychiatry, 60, pp. 361 - 368
,2006, 'Forward blocking in human learning sometimes reflects the failure to encode a cue-outcome relationship', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, pp. 830 - 844
,2006, 'Worry episodes and perceived problem solving: A diary-based approach', Anxiety Stress and Coping, 19, pp. 175 - 187
,2005, 'A dissociation between causal judgment and outcome recall', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, pp. 950 - 954
,2005, 'Evidence for deductive reasoning in blocking of causal judgments', Learning and Motivation, 36, pp. 77 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2004.09.001
,2005, 'Inference-Based Retrospective Revaluation in Human Causal Judgments Requires Knowledge of Within-Compound Relationships', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 31, pp. 418 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.418
,2005, 'The Utility of Somatic Items in the Assessment of Depression in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Comparison of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in Chronic Pain and Clinical and Community Samples', Clinical Journal of Pain, 21, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00002508-200501000-00011
,2004, 'The Abstracts of the 39th Conference of the Australian Psychological Society 29 September-3 October 2004 Sydney Convention Centre, New South Wales', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 56, pp. 153 - 153, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000226723401137&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2004, 'Cognitive processes in extinction', Learning and Memory, 11, pp. 495 - 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.79604
,2004, 'Investigating a cognitive diathesis stress model of childhood anxiety and depression', Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, pp. 218 - 218
,2004, 'Probability and cost estimates for social and physical outcomes in Social Phobia and Panic Disorder', Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18, pp. 481 - 498
,2004, 'The cognitive content of thought-listed worry episodes in clinic-referred anxious and nonreferred children', Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, pp. 613 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp3303_18
,2003, 'Causal Beliefs and Conditioned Responses: Retrospective Revaluation Induced by Experience and by Instruction', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Learning Memory and Cognition, 29, pp. 97 - 106
,2003, 'Causal beliefs and conditioned responses: Retrospective revaluation induced by experience and by instruction.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 29, pp. 97 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0278-7393.29.1.97
,2003, 'Forward and backward blocking of causal judgment is enhanced by additivity of effect magnitude', Memory and Cognition, 31, pp. 133 - 142
,2003, 'Measuring evaluative conditioning using the Implicit Association Test', Learning and Motivation, 34, pp. 203 - 217
,2002, 'Autonomic and eyeblink conditioning are closely related to contingency awareness', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 28, pp. 38 - 42
,2002, 'Backward and forward blocking in human electrodermal conditioning: Blocking requires an assumption of outcome additivity.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55B, pp. 311 - 329
,2002, 'The cognitive content of naturally occurring worry episodes', Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, pp. 167 - 177
,2002, 'The role of awareness in Pavlovian conditioning: Empirical evidence and theoretical implications', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 28, pp. 3 - 26
,2001, 'The `Near Miss` as a Fourth Pathway to Anxiety', Journal of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 29, pp. 35 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465801001059
,2000, 'Protection from extinction in human fear conditioning', Behaviour Research and Therapy, pp. 967 - 983
,2000, 'Relationship between perfectionism and emotional symptoms in an adolescent sample', Australian Journal of Psychology, 52, pp. 89 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049530008255373
,1998, 'Cue reactivity in dependent amphetamine users: can monistic conditioning theories advance our understanding of reactivity?', Drug and Alcohol Review, 17, pp. 277 - 288
,1998, 'Long-term stability of depression, anxiety, and stress syndromes.', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, pp. 520 - 526
,1997, 'Dissociations between covariation bias and expectancy bias for fear-relevant stimuli', Cognition and Emotion, 11, pp. 273 - 289
,1996, 'Conditioning with facial expressions of emotion: effects of CS sex and age', Psychophysiology, pp. 416 - 425
,1996, 'Expectancy bias in trait anxiety', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, pp. 637 - 647
,1995, 'Why are phobias irrational?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, pp. 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00038565
,1995, 'Blocking in human eletrodermal conditioning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 2 - 12
,1995, 'The structure of negative emotional states: comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories', Behaviour Research and Therapy, pp. 335 - 343
,1994, 'Electrodermal and subjective reactions to fear-relevant stimuli under threat of shock', Australian Journal of Psychology, 46, pp. 73 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049539408259476
,1993, 'Conditioning and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy', Behaviour Change, 10, pp. 119 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0813483900005465
,1993, 'Resistance to Extinction of Fear-Relevant Stimuli: Preparedness or Selective Sensitization?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 122, pp. 449 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.122.4.449
,1993, 'The representation of feared outcomes', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 31, pp. 595 - 608, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(93)90111-7
,1993, 'Classical Conditioning of Autonomic and Affective Responses to Fear-Relevant and Fear-Irrelevant Stimuli', Australian Journal of Psychology, 45, pp. 69 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049539308259121
,1992, 'Tonic and Phasic Electrodermal Measures of Human Aversive Conditioning with Long Duration Stimuli', Psychophysiology, 29, pp. 621 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1992.tb02037.x
,1991, 'Reply to: Lachnit H. and Kimmel H.D.: "Extending the Rescorla-Wagner theory to account for transswitching"', Biological Psychology, 32, pp. 205 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-0511(91)90012-6
,1989, 'Effects of fear-relevance on electrodermal safety signal learning', Biological Psychology, 28, pp. 89 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-0511(89)90092-6
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