Although exposure therapy is an established treatment for phobias ( Chambless & Hollon, 1998), methods that can improve outcome of exposure therapy are still needed ( Craske, 1999 Craske & Mystkowski, 2006). The typical treatment for phobias and other anxiety disorders involves repeated exposure to the feared situation or stimulus so that the fear or anxiety may extinguish over time.
Implications for exposure therapy and translational studies are discussed. Thus, affective labels may help dampen emotional reactivity in both the short and long terms.
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In both experiments, although repeated exposure to aversive images (without labels) led to long-term attenuation of autonomic reactivity, exposure plus affective labels, but not nonaffective labels, led to more attenuation than exposure alone. In Experiment 2, participants were spider fearful and were exposed to pictures of spiders. On Day 8, the same pictures from the previous week were exposed, this time without labels. In Experiment 1, healthy individuals were exposed to pictures of disturbing scenes with or without labels on Day 1. The authors examined whether repeated exposure to aversive images would lead to more reduction in autonomic reactivity a week later if the images were exposed with single-word labels than without labels. However, the effect of affective labels on emotional responding in the long term is unknown. Previous studies have shown that mere words, particularly affective words, can dampen emotional responses.
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