Ena Alcan

The Association Between Parent-to-Child Fear Learning Pathways and Anxiety Sensitivity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review Although anxiety sensitivity (AS), or the fear of anxiety-related symptoms, has been identified as a risk factor for the development of anxiety psychopathology, the pathways through which this fear is...

In our new systematic review and meta-analysis, we investigated how fear learning pathways relate to anxiety sensitivity. Now out in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others Although observational fear learning has been implicated in the development of phobic-related fears, studies investigating observational learning of f…

Excited to share this new publication on observational fear learning and interoceptive threat, where we show that fear of bodily symptoms can be acquired when observing fear reactions to aversive bodily symptoms in others
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Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...