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Peer reviewedDee, Carla – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Evidnce obtained in the present experiment suggests that explanatory instructional sets preceding implosive therapy can facilitate the reduction in fear to an avoided object. (Author) Therapy
Descriptors: Conditioning, Extinction (Psychology), Fear, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedKennedy, Thomas D.; Kimura, Harry K. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Degree of transfer and fear change associated with four levels of desensitization, pseudodesensitization, and no treatment were assessed in snakephobic students. Desensitization subjects reported significantly less anxiety than no-treatment controls when repeating their highest pretreatment responses, but were no different from either control…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Conditioning
