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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fear Reduction"”.
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The "role of Rehearsal Plus" on fear reduction, acquisition, maintenance, and knowledge of fire emergency skills
… and maintenance of fire emergency skills, fear reduction of fears associated with being in fires, and knowledge attainment. These three trained groups were compared to an untrained group. The subjects were 52 randomly assigned second- and third-grade children. They were assessed before, …
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The effects of cognitive self-instructional strategies on children's fear of fire
Childhood fears have been considered to be part of normal development. It is when these fears develop into severe fears or phobias that they become of concern to clinicians. Children's fears have varied over the years from school related fears, to political fears, to fears of danger and death in …
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Health disparities and attention to health information by disenfranchised groups
… studies examined the impression, defense, and fear-reduction motives underlying attention to health information by individuals from traditionally disenfranchised groups. Results suggested that both chronic and situational factors influence activation of impression motives, which in turn produce …
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The effects of active training strategies on children's acquisition of emergency skills and fear of fire
… fire emergency skills, reducing fire-related fears and physiological arousal, and increasing self-efficacy and rationale for fire safety skills. Active subjects imitated videotaped models performing emergency behavior while receiving behavior-contingent feedback. Passive viewers received no …
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The social transmission of associative fear in rats : mechanisms and applications of fear conditioning by proxy
… the robust production of responses makes direct fear conditioning the most frequently used paradigm in the research of fear and anxiety disorders. Fear can also be acquired from a social context, such as through observing the fear expression of a conspecific (Mineka et al., 1984, Mineka and Cook, …
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An attempt to develop a laboratory model of superstitious learning of threat
… & Gelder, 1996), prevent non-occurrence of the feared outcome from disconfirming the threat belief and eventual fear extinction. Quite the opposite, instrumental attempts to prevent imminent catastrophe lead non-occurrence of the feared outcome to be perceived as confirmation that the threat is …
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Investigating and targeting potential mechanisms of outcome in exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder
… Theoretical models of exposure therapy implicate reduction in threat-related avoidance (or, increases in threat-related attention and approach) as a mechanism of fear reduction. The studies in this dissertation follow this theory-driven approach by testing the hypothesized relation between changes …