Peter F. Lovibond Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
Peter F. Lovibond studied associative learning, threat expectancy and avoidance. Experiments on safety behaviors ask whether protection during a feared situation prevents a change in the expected threat. Distinguishing the experienced outcome from what a participant attributes to the safety behavior helps explain why an apparently safe trial need not produce the same learning in every condition. [ref]