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1 - Learning Mechanisms in Fear and Anxiety

It Is Still Not What You Thought It Was

from Section 1 - Basic Mechanisms in Fear and Anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Sara Scheveneels ,
Yannick Boddez  and
Dirk Hermans
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Bunmi O. Olatunji
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Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 13 - 40
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