Happy to share this wonderful work spearheaded by Luianta about the viscous cycle between avoiding something and believing it is bad for you. See preprint belo and also check out the link to the cute dog island task.
Nico Schuck
New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them?
New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social
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