Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour

Anxiety patients often experience conflicts between approaching (pass barking dog) and avoiding (take detour) feared situations. In most experimental avoidance paradigms, response options are limited or forced, making it difficult to generalize the results to daily life situations. The aim of the pr...

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Autores principales:	Pauline Dibbets, Anke Lemmens, Richard Benning, Tom Smeets
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Virtual reality Fear conditioning Avoidance behaviour Distress tolerance Trait anxiety Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a5814195dedf4d3684e322891e0170a82021-12-01T05:03:46ZCan you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2021.100061https://doaj.org/article/a5814195dedf4d3684e322891e0170a82021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000099https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588Anxiety patients often experience conflicts between approaching (pass barking dog) and avoiding (take detour) feared situations. In most experimental avoidance paradigms, response options are limited or forced, making it difficult to generalize the results to daily life situations. The aim of the present study was twofold: 1) to develop a more ecologically valid avoidance paradigm; 2) to examine the influence of individual characteristics (trait anxiety; distress tolerance) on approach-avoidance behaviour. To encourage free exploration behaviour, a virtual reality (VR) escape room was developed. In this room, participants searched for cues to decipher a code-locked door. Opening a marked vase (conditioned stimulus, CS) was followed by a jump scare, a rat jumping out of the vase (unconditioned stimulus, US). Avoidance was measured via questionnaires and relative manipulation time of CS-marked (EXPgen) or nonmarked (CONT) objects in the room; questionnaires measured trait anxiety and distress tolerance. EXPgen participants reported higher US expectancies and more avoidance of the (marked) vase compared to the CONT participants, yet behavioural data did not support these ratings. Additionally, higher trait anxiety scores coincided with higher US expectancies before the jump scare. The current flexible free-exploratory paradigm provides multiple opportunities to examine avoidance behaviour in different populations and settings.Pauline DibbetsAnke LemmensRichard BenningTom SmeetsElsevierarticleVirtual realityFear conditioningAvoidance behaviourDistress toleranceTrait anxietyElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 100061- (2021)
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topic	Virtual reality Fear conditioning Avoidance behaviour Distress tolerance Trait anxiety Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	Virtual reality Fear conditioning Avoidance behaviour Distress tolerance Trait anxiety Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990 Pauline Dibbets Anke Lemmens Richard Benning Tom Smeets Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
description	Anxiety patients often experience conflicts between approaching (pass barking dog) and avoiding (take detour) feared situations. In most experimental avoidance paradigms, response options are limited or forced, making it difficult to generalize the results to daily life situations. The aim of the present study was twofold: 1) to develop a more ecologically valid avoidance paradigm; 2) to examine the influence of individual characteristics (trait anxiety; distress tolerance) on approach-avoidance behaviour. To encourage free exploration behaviour, a virtual reality (VR) escape room was developed. In this room, participants searched for cues to decipher a code-locked door. Opening a marked vase (conditioned stimulus, CS) was followed by a jump scare, a rat jumping out of the vase (unconditioned stimulus, US). Avoidance was measured via questionnaires and relative manipulation time of CS-marked (EXPgen) or nonmarked (CONT) objects in the room; questionnaires measured trait anxiety and distress tolerance. EXPgen participants reported higher US expectancies and more avoidance of the (marked) vase compared to the CONT participants, yet behavioural data did not support these ratings. Additionally, higher trait anxiety scores coincided with higher US expectancies before the jump scare. The current flexible free-exploratory paradigm provides multiple opportunities to examine avoidance behaviour in different populations and settings.
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author	Pauline Dibbets Anke Lemmens Richard Benning Tom Smeets
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title	Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
title_short	Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
title_full	Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
title_fullStr	Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
title_full_unstemmed	Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour
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publisher	Elsevier
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Can you escape the virtual room? A novel paradigm to assess avoidance behaviour

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