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
- Mozhao Li, Alex H.K. Wong, Bernadette von Dawans, Gregor Domes & Matthias J. Wieser (2026) - Acute stress impairs attentional control and emotional processing in social anxiety - iScience, 29 (5) - doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115767 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Matthias J. Wieser & Marta Andreatta (2026) - The role of relief in persistent avoidance of learnt fear - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 198 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2026.104976 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Jonas Zaman & Steven Verheyen (2025) - Taxonomic and thematic generalization of safety behaviors - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 195 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104881 - [link]
- 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]
- Paula Engelke, Alex H.K. Wong & Andre Pittig (2025) - Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 192 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104787 - [link]
- Alex H.K. Wong (2025) - Spreading the reduction of fear: A narrative review of generalization of extinction learning in human fear conditioning - Clinical Psychology Review, 118 - doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102580 - [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]
- Alex H.K. Wong, Andre Pittig & Iris M. Engelhard (2024) - The generalization of threat beliefs to novel safety stimuli induced by safety behaviors - Behavioural Brain Research, 470 - doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115078 - [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]
2.4 Emotional and Affective Disorders
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- ESSB-P2120K
2.3.2C Anxiety and Stress
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP2-062-A
3.7 Bachelor thesis
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP30057
3.5C Eating, Sex and Sleep
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWP3085K
