Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7262816 | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠We applied a social psychological perspective on attitudes to understanding the effects of exposure therapy. ⺠Attitudes involve automatic and controlled processes and implicit measures tap the former. ⺠Return of fear (ROF) should be likely when automatically activated attitudes remain negative following treatment. ⺠As predicted, a Personalized Implicit Association Test following treatment predicted ROF at 1-month follow-up. âºÂ Change in the automatic phobic attitude is an important goal of exposure therapy.
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Authors
Michael W. Vasey, Casaundra N. Harbaugh, Adam G. Buffington, Christopher R. Jones, Russell H. Fazio,