Fear and Anxiety in Virtual Reality

Investigations of cue and context conditioning in virtual environment

von Hannah Genheimer

79 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Virtual realities provide an outstanding tool in anxiety research. A fear conditioning study investigates and illustrates the development of anxiety disorders in humans. Hannah Genheimer describes the scientific background of fear and anxiety and presents an empirical study in a highly controlled virtual environment. Psychophysiological as well as subjective data on the participants’ fear and anxiety clearly show contextual fear conditioning. Cue conditioning in the light of one-trial learning is discussed. The results emphasize the promising application of virtual environments in psychotherapy.

• Reihe: BestMasters
• ISBN: 9783658082024
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2014
• Genre: Psychologie/Angewandte Psychologie
• Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH