Related to Anxiety: Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding and Experimental Psychopathology Research on Fear and Avoidance
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Humans have an unparalleled ability to engage in arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARR). One of the consequences of this ability to spontaneously combine and relate events from the past, present, and future may, in fact, be a propensity to suffer. For instance, maladaptive fear and avoidance of remote or derived threats may actually perpetuate anxiety. In this narrative review, we consider contemporary AARR research on fear and avoidance as it relates to anxiety. We first describe laboratory-based research on the emergent spread of fear- and avoidance-eliciting functions in humans. Next, we consider the validity of AARR research on fear and avoidance and address the therapeutic implications of the work. Finally, we outline challenges and opportunities for a greater synthesis between behavior analysis research on AARR and experimental psychopathology.
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Once acquired, extinguished, or recovered, it is feasible to expect that avoidance may readily spread or generalize via relational learning to seemingly innocuous stimuli.
“Once acquired, extinguished, or recovered, it is feasible to expect that avoidance may readily spread or generalize via relational learning to seemingly innocuous stimuli (Dymond et al., 2018; Dymond, Dunsmoor, Vervliet, Roche, & Hermans, 2015; Hunt, Cooper, Hartnell, & Lissek, 2019).”
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The AARR and Avoidance section reports that acquired avoidance transferred to indirectly related stimuli without further training. The fear-learning section also reports avoidance by previously neutral, related stimuli. The paper discusses transfer of extinction as a reduction in avoidance; the cited passages do not establish that extinguished or recovered avoidance itself readily spreads to innocuous stimuli. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Dymond, S., Bennett, M., Boyle, S., Roche, B., & Schlund, M.
- Affiliations
- Reykjavík University (IS)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth (IE)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dymond, Simon
- Venue
- Perspectives on Behavior Science
- Published
- 2017-12-27
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 189-213
- ISSN
- 2520-8969 (ISSN-L)
- 2520-8977
- PMC
- PMC6701705
- OpenAlex
- W2773788053
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 140
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 8.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Perspectives on Behavior Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- anxiety, fear, avoidance, experimental psychopathology, behavior analysis, therapeutic implications
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