Academy Fellow

Peter Lovibond is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He carries out basic and applied research on human associative learning and anxiety, with a focus on high-level cognitive processes. He also works on nature and measurement of depression and anxiety.

• Chair of the Heads of Departments and Schools of Psychology Association (2003-2004)
• Chair of the Organising Committee for the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society (2004)
• Australian Research Council Oz Reader (2001-2008)
• Australian Research Council Member of College of Experts (2009-2011)
• Vice-President, Psychology Foundation of Australia (2000-2018)
• Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science UNSW (2009-2015, 2017-2018)
• Acting Dean, Faculty of Science UNSW (2016-2017)

• Lovibond, P.F. & Westbrook, R.F. (in press). The role of expectancy in Pavlovian conditioning. Psychological Review. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000516
• Ng, D., Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (in press). The role of prior beliefs in causal illusions. Cognition.
• Lovibond, P.F., Chow, J.Y.L. & Lee, J.C. (in revision). Illusory or normative? Selective inferences about hidden causes can explain causal illusions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Lee, J.C. , Chow, J.Y.L. & Lovibond, P.F. (2025). Occasion setting in humans: Norm or exception? Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 20, 45-49.
• Chow, J.Y.L., Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (2024). Using unobserved causes to explain unexpected outcomes: The effect of existing causal knowledge on protection from extinction by a hidden cause. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 50, 1167-1185.
• Ng, D., Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (2024). Unidirectional rating scales inflate the illusory causation phenomenon. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 551-562. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231175003
• Lovibond, P.F., Chow, J.Y.L. & Lee, J.C. (2023). How do Participants Interpret Trials from Individual Cells in a Causal Illusion Task? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 534-539. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z13c6d6
• Lee, J. C., Chow, J.Y.L., Lee, J.E., Ng, D.W.H. & Lovibond, P.F. (2023). Assessing distributions of causal beliefs in the illusory causation task. Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 2164-2170. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83f5h3s1
• Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, P., Lee, J.C., Liew, S.X., Weidemann, G., Lovibond, P.F. & McNally, G.P. (2023). A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (15) e2221634120.
• Chow, J.Y.L., Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (2023). Inhibitory learning with bidirectional outcomes: Prevention learning or causal learning in the opposite direction? Journal of Cognition, 6(1),19.
• Lovibond, P.F., Chow, J.Y.L. & Lee, J.C. (2023). Retardation of acquisition after conditioned inhibition and latent inhibition training in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49, 75-86.
• Lovibond, P.F., Chow, J.Y.L., Tobler, C. & Lee, J.C. (2022). Reversal of inhibition by no-modulation training but not by extinction in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 336-348.
• Ng, D., Lee, J.C., Hayes, B.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2022). Generalization following symmetrical intradimensional discrimination training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 179-189.
• Szabo, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2022). Development and psychometric properties of the DASS-Youth (DASS-Y): An extension of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) to adolescents and children. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology for Clinical Settings, 13.
• Chow, J.Y.L., Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (2022). Inhibitory summation as a form of generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 86-104.
• Ackland, C.A., Molesworth, B.R.C., Grisham, J.R. & Lovibond, P.F. (2022). Pilot mental health, methodologies and findings: A systematic review. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 93, 1-13.
• Lee, J.C., Le Pelley, M.E. & Lovibond, P.F. (2022). Nonreactive testing: Evaluating the effect of withholding feedback in predictive learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 17-28.
• Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, P., Lee, J.C., Liew, S.X., Weidemann, G., Lovibond, P.F. & McNally, G.P. (2021). Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning. eLife, 10.
• Lovibond, P.F. & Lee, J.C. (2021). Inhibitory causal structures in serial and simultaneous feature negative learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 2165-2181.
• Wong, A.H.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2021). Breakfast or bakery? The role of categorical ambiguity in over-generalization of learned fear in trait anxiety. Emotion, 21, 856-870.
• Lee, J., Lovibond, P., Hayes, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2021). A Mixture of Experts in Associative Generalization. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 341-347. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hn8n42j
• Lee, J.C. & Lovibond, P.F. (2021). Individual differences in causal structures inferred during feature negative learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 150-165.
• Chen, J.T-H. & Lovibond, P.F. (2020). Threat appraisal and negative affect under ambiguity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 76, 102299. 
• Venkatesh, S. & Lovibond, P.F. (2020). Is the unexamined professional life worth practicing? Factors influencing ethical practice in psychologists. Ethics and Behavior, 30, 326-341.
• Ng, A. & Lovibond, P.F. (2020). Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety. Emotion, 20, 1098-1103.
• Lovibond, P.F., Lee, J.C. & Hayes, B.K. (2020). Stimulus discriminability and induction as separable components of generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 46, 1106-1120.
• Wong, A.H.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2020). Generalization of extinction of a generalization stimulus in fear learning. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 125, 103535.
• Lee, J.C., Lovibond, P.F. & Hayes, B.K. (2019). Evidential diversity increases generalization in predictive learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2647-2657.
• Lee, J.C., Lovibond, P.F., Hayes, B.K. & Navarro, D.J. (2019). Negative evidence and inductive reasoning in generalization of associative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 289-303.
• Ahmed, O. & Lovibond, P.F. (2019). Rule-based processes in generalisation and peak shift in human fear conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 118–131.
• Wong, A.H.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2018). Excessive generalization of conditioned fear in trait anxious individuals under ambiguity. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 107, 53-63.
• Lee, J.C., Hayes, B.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2018). Peak shift and rules in human generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 1955-1970.
• Wong, A.H.K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2017). Rule-based generalisation in single-cue and differential fear conditioning in humans. Biological Psychology, 129, 111-120.
• Ng, A. & Lovibond, P.F. (2017). Intentions matter: Avoidance intentions regulate anxiety via outcome expectancy. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 96, 57-65.
• Moussa M.T., Lovibond P.F., Laube, R. & Megahead, H.A. (2017). Psychometric properties of an Arabic Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Research on Social Work Practice, 27, 375-386.
• Bezzina, L., Lee, J., Lovibond, P.F. & Colagiuri, B. (2016). Extinction and renewal of cue-elicited reward-seeking. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 87, 162-169.
• Weidemann, G. & Lovibond, P.F. (2016). The role of US recency in the Perruchet effect in eyeblink conditioning. Biological Psychology, 119, 1-10.
• Weidemann, G., Satkunarajah, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2016). I think therefore eyeblink: The importance of contingency awareness in conditioning. Psychological Science, 27, 467-475.
• Chen, J.T-H., Felmingham, K. & Lovibond, P.F. (2016). Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with increased threat appraisal and negative affect under ambiguity but not uncertainty. Behavior Therapy, 47, 42-53.
• Ahmed, O. & Lovibond, P.F. (2015). The impact of instructions on generalization of conditioned fear in humans. Behavior Therapy, 46, 597-603.
• Lovibond, P.F., Satkunarajah, M. & Colagiuri, B. (2015). Extinction can reduce the impact of reward cues on reward-seeking behavior. Behavior Therapy, 46, 432-438.
• Lovibond, P.F. (2015). Publication of student data when the student cannot be contacted. In R. Sternberg & S. Fiske (Eds.), Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences: Case Studies and Commentaries. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Colagiuri, B. & Lovibond, P.F. (2015). How food cues can enhance and inhibit motivation to obtain and consume food. Appetite, 84, 79-87.
• Ahmed, O. & Lovibond, P.F. (2015). The impact of previously learned feature-relevance on generalisation of conditioned fear in humans. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 59-65.
• Griffiths, O., Mitchell, C.J, Bethmont, A. & Lovibond, P.F. (2015). Outcome predictability biases learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 41, 1-17.