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Bridget McConnell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Binghamton University (State University of New York) and her B.A. from Texas Lutheran University. Her research expertise focuses on associative learning, particularly classical and instrumental conditioning, and experimental psychopathology. McConnell is particularly interested in the application of associative learning principles to clinical research questions and treatment methods for phobias, including exposure therapy. Her work also explores the role of memory in educational contexts, aiming to enhance the encoding and retrieval of information for improved academic performance. McConnell has contributed to various publications in her field, highlighting the influence of associative processes on anxiety, attention, and pain perception, as well as techniques to reduce relapse in exposure therapy. She is committed to advancing the understanding of experimental mechanisms that underpin learning and memory in both human and non-human subjects.
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