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Peter F. Lovibond

Professor

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.
  • Mitchell, C.J. & Lovibond, P.F. (2002). Backward and forward blocking in human electrodermal conditioning: Blocking requires an assumption of outcome additivity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 311-329.
  • 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. (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. (2004). Cognitive processes in extinction. Learning and Memory, 11, 495-500.
  • Szabó, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2004). The cognitive content of thought-listed worry in clinic-referred anxious and non-referred children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 613-622.
  • Mitchell, C.J., Killedar A. & Lovibond, P.F. (2005). Inference-based retrospective revaluation in human causal judgments requires knowledge of within-compound relationships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 418-424.
  • 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.
  • Szabó, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2006). Anxiety, depression and tension/stress in children. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
  • Guastella, A.J., Lovibond, P.F., Dadds, M.R., Philip Mitchell, P. & Richardson, R. (in press). A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on extinction and fear conditioning in humans. Behaviour Research & Therapy.
  • Hermans, D., Craske, M.G., Mineka, S. & Lovibond, P.F. (in press). Extinction in human fear conditioning. Biological Psychiatry.
Courses:

PSYC3201: Psychopathology

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Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 1001
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-1553
Fax: (61-2) 9385-1193
Email: P.Lovibond@unsw.edu.au