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A Neuropsychological Theory of Anxiety

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Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology

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Gray makes it quite clear that readers should be prepared for a novel conception of anxiety that will strike some as paradoxical. He maintains that the two major components of anxiety are conditioned fear and conditioned or anticipatory frustration. It is his data-supported argument that these two phenomena can be viewed as separate states or as a single state (anxiety) that will create a paradox for some readers. Gray resolves the paradox by demonstrating the functional equivalence of conditioned fear and conditioned frustration in animals.

The experiment work reported in this chapter was supported by the U.K. Medical Research Council. During the time of writing the author held a Social Science Research Fellowship from the Nuffield Foundation.

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Gray, J.A. (1979). A Neuropsychological Theory of Anxiety. In: Izard, C.E. (eds) Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2892-6_11

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