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Alex Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research centers on understanding the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms underlying anxiety-related psychopathology, with a focus on fear and avoidance learning processes.
Research Interests: Dr. Wong's work investigates how fear and avoidance behaviors are acquired, generalized to novel stimuli, and reduced in clinical populations. He is particularly interested in the role of individual differences and predisposing risk factors such as trait anxiety. His research integrates psychophysiological methods (e.g., skin conductance) with experimental paradigms in fear conditioning and avoidance learning.
The recent publication trends indicate a strong focus on safety behaviors, threat beliefs, fear generalization, and inter-individual variability in anxiety disorders. His studies often involve network modeling and systematic reviews to map complex psychological processes.
Scientific Output:
- The effect of typicality training on costly safety behavior generalization (2024)
- A network perspective on real-life threat, anxiety, and avoidance (2024)
- No influence of threat uncertainty on fear generalization (2024)
- The degree of safety behaviors to a safety stimulus predicts development of threat beliefs (2023)
- A Systematic Review of the Inter-individual Differences in Avoidance Learning (2023)
Advising and Grants: Specific details on student advising, supervised theses, or external research grants are not mentioned in the provided text. However, his active publication record and collaborations suggest involvement in research supervision and project leadership.
Labs and Teams: While no specific lab name is provided, Dr. Wong collaborates extensively with researchers such as Pittig, Andreatta, Wieser, and Engelhard, indicating participation in a research team focused on experimental psychopathology and anxiety disorders.
