SYNCHRONOUS AND DESYNCHRONOUS CHANGES DURING FEAR REDUCTION

被引:65
作者
GREY, S [1 ]
SARTORY, G [1 ]
RACHMAN, S [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV LONDON,INST PSYCHIAT,DEPT PSYCHOL,LONDON,ENGLAND
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1016/0005-7967(79)90022-6
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
The purpose of this experiment, carried out on 27 subjects with intense and circumscribed fears, was to test one main hypothesis and several subsidiary predictions. The prediction that a high-demand in vivo treatment condition produces desynchronous changes and a low-demand treatment condition synchronous changes, was supported by some inter-session findings but not by the intra-session findings. The clear linear relation between heart-rate and reported fear was confirmed, as was the rapid habituation of the heart-rate response to phobic stimulation. The fear-reactions and fear-reductions of psychiatric and non-psychiatric were indistinguishable. High heart-rate responders and low heart-rate responders showed similar patterns of improvement. The constrained laboratory 'treatment' procedure used in the experiment produced large and rapid reductions in fear. © 1979.
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页码:137 / 147
页数:11
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