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The impact of safety behavior on exposure-based fear reduction: a meta-analytic review Safety behaviours – the subtle things people do to prevent feared outcomes during exposure – are widely debated in clinical practice. Should clinicians discourage them entirely, or can they be used strategically? This meta-analytic review synthesises the experimental literature on the impact of…

Overgeneral autobiographical memory predicts changes in depression in a community sample People who struggle to recall specific personal memories – instead retrieving overly general ones – tend to have worse outcomes in depression. This community study examined whether this ‘overgeneral memory’ pattern predicts changes in depression over time, contributing to our understanding of a cognitive…