Biography
My research focuses on the different learning processes in anxiety-related psychopathology in humans. I am particularly interested in the acquisition and generalization of fear and avoidance to novel cues or situations, the reduction of pathological fear and avoidance, and the role of predisposing risk factors in the generalization and reduction of fear and avoidance.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant professor | Clinical Psychology
- h.k.wong@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Işık E. Kesim, Andre Pittig & Alex H.K. Wong (2024) - The effect of typicality training on costly safety behavior generalization - Psychological Research, 88 (5), 1771-1782 - doi: 10.1007/s00426-024-01979-0 - [link]
- Valentina M. Glück, Paula Engelke, Kirsten Hilger, Alex H.K. Wong, Juliane M. Boschet & Andre Pittig (2024) - A network perspective on real-life threat, anxiety, and avoidance - Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80 (1), 23-38 - doi: 10.1002/jclp.23575 - [link]
- Asimina Aslanidou, Marta Andreatta, Alex H.K. Wong & Matthias J. Wieser (2024) - No influence of threat uncertainty on fear generalization - Psychophysiology, 61 (1) - doi: 10.1111/psyp.14423 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Eva A.M. van Dis, Andre Pittig, Muriel A. Hagenaars & Iris M. Engelhard (2023) - The degree of safety behaviors to a safety stimulus predicts development of threat beliefs - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 170 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104423 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Asimina Aslanidou, Marcelo Malbec, Andre Pittig, Matthias J. Wieser & Marta Andreatta (2023) - A Systematic Review of the Inter-individual Differences in Avoidance Learning - Collabra: Psychology, 9 (1) - doi: 10.1525/collabra.77856 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong & Andre Pittig (2023) - Reducing avoidance of learnt fear: Extinction of an imminent threat signal partly decreases costly avoidance to a distal threat signal - Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14 (2) - doi: 10.1177/20438087231175147 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Jessica C. Lee, Paula Engelke & Andre Pittig (2023) - Reduction of costly safety behaviors after extinction with a generalization stimulus is determined by individual differences in generalization rules - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 160 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104233 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong & Andre Pittig (2022) - Threat belief determines the degree of costly safety behavior: Assessing rule-based generalization of safety behavior with a dimensional measure of avoidance - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 156 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104158 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Franziska M. Wirth & Andre Pittig (2022) - Avoidance of learnt fear: Models, potential mechanisms, and future directions - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 151 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104056 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong & Andre Pittig (2022) - Avoiding a feared stimulus: Modelling costly avoidance of learnt fear in a sensory preconditioning paradigm - Biological Psychology, 168 - doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108249 - [link]
