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Feelings and defensive actions are dissociated under naturalistic threat

2026-05-26

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<p>Feelings are fundamental to everyday life and are central to clinical conditions such as anxiety disorders, but their adaptive function remains poorly understood. Here, we test two competing accounts: one holds that feelings drive immediate actions, for example fear causes escape, while the other proposes that feelings and actions arise from largely independent processes. Using freely moving virtual reality, pa...

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Literature Corpus work: 7e14764e-e054-5328-931d-2ec7b6bc28e9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/kxpjm_v1

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