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. 1976 Jan;32(1):140-5.
doi: 10.1002/1097-4679(197601)32:1<140::aid-jclp2270320136>3.0.co;2-7.

Credibility ratings for desensitization and pseudotherapy among moderately and mildly snake-avoidant college students

F D Mcglynn, R Walls

Credibility ratings for desensitization and pseudotherapy among moderately and mildly snake-avoidant college students

F D Mcglynn et al. J Clin Psychol. 1976 Jan.

Abstract

Twenty moderately avoidant and 20 mildly avoidant Ss were chosen as though they were to participate in a snake-avoidance desensitization experiment. After relaxation training, Ss listened to a taped excerpt of either desensitization or pseudotherapy and responded to a 5-item questionnaire that assessed the credibility of the treatment. Mildly avoidant Ss rated desensitization as more credible than pseudotherapy. The implication of this finding is that a great many experimental studies of systematic desensitization have failed to control satisfactorily for the operation of expectancy effects and nonspecific forms of behavioral influence.

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