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Peter F. Lovibond

Professor & Senior Associate Dean (Faculty of Science)

Research Areas: Topics in learning and experimental psychopathology, eg reasoning in associative learning, cognitive processes in anxiety, relationships between anxiety, depression and stress.

Selected Publications:

  • Lovibond, P.F. & Shanks, D.R. (2002). The role of awareness in Pavlovian conditioning: Empirical evidence and theoretical implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28, 3-26.
  • Lovibond, P.F. (2003). Causal beliefs and conditioned responses: Retrospective revaluation induced by experience and by instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29 , 97-106.
  • Lovibond, P.F., Been, S., Mitchell, C.J., Bouton, M.E. & Frohardt, R. (2003). Forward and backward blocking of causal judgment is enhanced by additivity of effect magnitude. Memory and Cognition, 31 , 133-142.
  • Lovibond, P.F. (2004). Cognitive processes in extinction. Learning and Memory, 11, 495-500.
  • Szabó, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2004). The cognitive content of thought-listed worry episodes in clinic-referred anxious and non-referred children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 613-622.
  • Taylor, R., Lovibond, P.F., Nicholas, M.K., Cayley, C & Wilson, P.H.. (2005). The utility of somatic items in the assessment of depression in chronic pain patients: A comparison of the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in chronic pain and clinical and community samples. Clinical Journal of Pain, 21, 91-100.
  • Lovibond, P.F. (2006). Fear and avoidance: An integrated expectancy model. In Craske, M.G., Hermans, D. & Vansteenwegen, D. Fear and learning: Basic science to clinical application. American Psychological Association.
  • Guastella, A.J., Lovibond, P.F., Dadds, M.R., Mitchell, P. & Richardson, R. (2007). A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on extinction and fear conditioning in humans. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 45, 663-672.
  • Lovibond, P.F., Saunders, J.C., Weidemann, G. & Mitchell, C.J. (2008). Evidence for expectancy as a mediator of avoidance and anxiety in a laboratory model of human avoidance learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1199-1216.
  • Weidemann, G., Tangen, J., Lovibond, P.F., & Mitchell, C.J. (2009). Is Perruchet’s dissociation between eyeblink conditioned responding and outcome expectancy evidence for two learning systems? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 169-176.
  • Mitchell, C.J., De Houwer, J. & Lovibond, P.F. (2009). The propositional nature of human associative learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 183-198.
  • Mitchell, C.J., De Houwer, J. & Lovibond, P.F. (2009). Link-based learning theory creates more problems than it solves. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 230-246.
Courses:

PSYC2001: Research Methods 2
PSYC3201: Psychopathology

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Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 914
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3830
Fax: (61-2) 9385-1193
Email: P.Lovibond@unsw.edu.au