Emotional Processing of Fear¶
Foa, E. B., & Kozak, M. J. (1986). Emotional Processing of Fear: Exposure to Corrective Information. Psychological Bulletin, 99(1), 20-35.
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Primes¶
- Annealing
- Organisational change: reorganisations that temporarily relax reporting structure and then re-impose it gradually let teams self-organise toward a new shape; executed as a hard cutover (a quench), they refreeze the old shape under new labels. Therapy and learning: exposure therapy raises controlled agitation around a feared stimulus and reduces it gradually so new associations stabilise; spaced practice introduces forgetting before re-consolidation.
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Supports the exposure-therapy half: fear activation during exposure rises, then habituates, and corrective information modifies the fear structure; says nothing about spaced practice or forgetting.
“Responses gradually increase, reach a plateau, and then gradually decrease.”
- Organisational change: reorganisations that temporarily relax reporting structure and then re-impose it gradually let teams self-organise toward a new shape; executed as a hard cutover (a quench), they refreeze the old shape under new labels. Therapy and learning: exposure therapy raises controlled agitation around a feared stimulus and reduces it gradually so new associations stabilise; spaced practice introduces forgetting before re-consolidation.
Mechanisms¶
- Graded Exposure Protocol
- It works precisely because repeated, tolerable contact drives habituation — the fear response extinguishes through exposure it cannot maintain
This sourceTreats exposure to corrective information and habituation across exposure sessions as mechanisms and indicators of fear reduction.
- It works precisely because repeated, tolerable contact drives habituation — the fear response extinguishes through exposure it cannot maintain
- Graduated Exposure Ladder
- Its strength is that it is the disciplined cure for avoidance-maintained fear: graded, consented, habituation-gated exposure reliably shrinks a fear's grip where reassurance and avoidance only feed it.
This sourceExplains that confronting feared situations supplies corrective information and reduces fear, with habituation serving as an indicator of emotional processing.
- Its strength is that it is the disciplined cure for avoidance-maintained fear: graded, consented, habituation-gated exposure reliably shrinks a fear's grip where reassurance and avoidance only feed it.
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