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Peter F. Lovibond is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Child and animal learning development
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes
  • Perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior

Peter F. Lovibond has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Development and Psychometric Properties of the DASS-Youth (DASS-Y): An Extension of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) to Adolescents and Children, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Punishment Insensitivity in Humans Is Due to Failures in Instrumental Contingency Learning, 2021, eLife
  • A Cognitive Pathway to Punishment Insensitivity, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Breakfast or Bakery? The Role of Categorical Ambiguity in Overgeneralization of Learned Fear in Trait Anxiety, 2020, Emotion
  • Pilot Mental Health, Methodologies, and Findings: A Systematic Review, 2022, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Jessica C. Lee
  • Julie Y. L. Chow
  • David Ng
  • Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel
  • Shi Xian Liew

Peter F. Lovibond's publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • The structure of negative emotional states: comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories.

    Peter F. Lovibond;S. H. Lovibond

  • Depression Anxiety Stress Scales

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  • The propositional nature of human associative learning.

    Chris J. Mitchell;Jan De Houwer;Peter F. Lovibond

  • The role of awareness in Pavlovian conditioning: Empirical evidence and theoretical implications

    Peter F. Lovibond;David R. Shanks

  • Percentile Norms and Accompanying Interval Estimates from an Australian General Adult Population Sample for Self-Report Mood Scales (BAI, BDI, CRSD, CES-D, DASS, DASS-21, STAI-X, STAI-Y, SRDS, and SRAS)

    John Crawford;Carol Cayley;Peter F Lovibond;Peter H Wilson

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of D-Cycloserine Enhancement of Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

    Adam J. Guastella;Rick Richardson;Peter F. Lovibond;Ronald M. Rapee

  • Long-term stability of depression, anxiety, and stress syndromes.

    Peter F. Lovibond

  • Extinction in human fear conditioning.

    Dirk Hermans;Michelle G. Craske;Susan Mineka;Peter F. Lovibond

  • Safety behaviours preserve threat beliefs: Protection from extinction of human fear conditioning by an avoidance response

    Peter F. Lovibond;Christopher J. Mitchell;Erin Minard;Alison Brady

  • Context specificity of conditioning, extinction, and latent inhibition.

    Peter F. Lovibond;G. C. Preston;N. J. Mackintosh

  • Facilitation of instrumental behavior by a Pavlovian appetitive conditioned stimulus.

    Peter F. Lovibond

  • Psychometric Properties of an Arabic Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS)

    Miriam Taouk Moussa;Peter Lovibond;Roy Laube;Hamido A. Megahead

  • Protection from extinction in human fear conditioning.

    Peter F Lovibond;Natasha R Davis;Ailie S O'Flaherty

  • A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on exposure therapy for spider fear.

    Adam J. Guastella;Mark R. Dadds;Peter F. Lovibond;Philip Mitchell

  • Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales

    P. F. Lovibond;S. H. Lovibond

  • Causal beliefs and conditioned responses: retrospective revaluation induced by experience and by instruction.

    Peter F. Lovibond

  • The utility of somatic items in the assessment of depression in patients with chronic pain: a comparison of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in chronic pain and clinical and community samples.

    Renae Taylor;Peter F. Lovibond;Michael K. Nicholas;F. Carol Cayley

  • Expectancy bias in trait anxiety

    Calais K. Y. Chan;Peter F. Lovibond

  • Cognitive Processes in Extinction.

    Peter F. Lovibond

  • The Cognitive Content of Naturally Occurring Worry Episodes

    Marianna Szabó;Peter F. Lovibond

  • A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on extinction and fear conditioning in humans.

    Adam J. Guastella;Peter F. Lovibond;Mark R. Dadds;Philip Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Colagiuri
Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney
Rick Richardson
Rick Richardson University of New South Wales
Adam J. Guastella
Adam J. Guastella University of Sydney
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
David R. Shanks
David R. Shanks University College London
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Ronald M. Rapee
Ronald M. Rapee Macquarie University
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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