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-present)
• Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science UNSW (2009-2015, 2017-2018)
• Acting Dean, Faculty of Science UNSW (2016-2017)

• Ng, A. & Lovibond, P.F. (in press). Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety. Emotion.
• 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.
• 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 biased 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.