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
- Larissa M. Chang, Matthias J. Wieser & Alex H.K. Wong (2025) - Increase in avoidance of learnt fear via unconditioned stimulus revaluation - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 193 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104813 - [link]
- Asimina Aslanidou, Marta Andreatta, Alex H.K. Wong & Matthias J. Wieser (2025) - Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20 (1) - doi: 10.1093/scan/nsae097 - [link]
- 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]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Minita Franzen & Matthias J. Wieser (2024) - Unconditioned stimulus devaluation decreases the generalization of costly safety behaviors - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 103 - doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102847 - [link]
- Valentina M. GlĂ¼ck, 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]
3.5C Eating, Sex and Sleep
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP3085K
2.3.2C Anxiety and Stress
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP2-062-A
3.7 Bachelor thesis
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP30057