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.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1986

DOI

10.1037/0033-2909.99.1.20

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.99.1.20

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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.

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.

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