COVARIATION DETECTION IN TREATED AND UNTREATED SPIDER PHOBICS

被引:51
作者
DEJONG, PJ
MERCKELBACH, H
ARNTZ, A
NIJMAN, H
机构
[1] Department of Experimental Psychopathology/Mental Health Sciences, Limburg University, Maastricht
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10.1037/0021-843X.101.4.724
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
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Twenty treated and 18 untreated spider phobics were exposed to a series of 72 slides. Three different categories of slides were used: phobia-relevant slides (spiders), alternative fear-relevant slides (weapons), and neutral slides (flowers). Slides were randomly paired with either a shock, a tone, or nothing at all. Despite the absence of a systematic correlation between slides and outcomes, untreated phobics strongly overestimated the covariation between spider slides and shock. Treated phobics did not show a covariation bias, suggesting that such bias can be modulated by behavioral treatment. In addition, untreated subjects were more confident about their contingency estimates than were treated subjects. The present results fit with earlier studies.
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