K. Roelofs

The relevance of accounting for parasympathetic as well as sympathetic arousal in threat conditioning: methodological and clinical considerations

This study examines the role of both parasympathetic and sympathetic arousal in threat conditioning, showing that parasympathetic responses are linked to anxiety resilience and that ignoring them can misclassify individuals as non-learners.

Human defensive freezing is associated with acute threat coping, long term hair cortisol levels and trait anxiety.

This study links human defensive freezing to threat coping, long-term cortisol levels, and trait anxiety using an active threat task.