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Credibility of analogue therapy rationales

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Insight vs. Desensitization in Psychotherapy

1966 • 383 citations

Systematic desensitization as a counterconditioning process.

1968 • 295 citations

Effects of cognitive desensitization on avoidance behavior.

1967 • 236 citations

Desensitization, suggestibility, and pseudotherapy.

1965 • 223 citations

Group insight versus group desensitization in treating speech anxiety.

1971 • 211 citations

Some comments on therapy analogue research with small animal “phobias”

1971 • 175 citations

Perceiving the causes of one's own behavior

1972 • 165 citations

Effects of expectancy on the outcome of systematic desensitization and implosive treatments for analogue anxiety

1972 • 144 citations

Expectancy of therapeutic gain: An empirical and conceptual critique.

1973 • 139 citations

Behavior therapy: Observations and reflections.

1969 • 131 citations

Systematic desensitization: Expectancy change or counterconditioning?

1969 • 131 citations

Contribution of selective positive reinforcement and therapeutic instructions to systematic desensitization therapy.

1969 • 127 citations

Insight versus desensitization in psychotherapy two years after termination.

1967 • 120 citations

Reinforced practice and reduction of different kinds of fears in adults and children

1973 • 115 citations

The transfer gap in systematic desensitization: An analogue study

1969 • 112 citations

Real-life exposure as a primary therapeutic factor in the desensitization treatment of fear.

1972 • 103 citations

Systematic desensitization, therapeutically oriented instructions and selective positive reinforcement

1969 • 103 citations

The role of expectancy and physiological feedback in fear research: A review with special reference to subject characteristics

1973 • 89 citations

Processes of fear-reduction in systematic desensitization: Cognitive and social reinforcement factors in humans

1973 • 76 citations

Desensitization and relaxation in the modification of psychiatric patients' interview behavior.

1968 • 75 citations

Active and passive participation in the contact desensitization of snake fear in children

1973 • 72 citations

The relationship between credibility of therapy and simulated therapeutic effects

1974 • 62 citations

The role of attention-placebo influences in the efficacy of systematic desensitization.

1973 • 58 citations

Transfer during systematic desensitization therapy

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Boundary conditions of false heart-rate feedback effects on avoidance behavior: A resolution of discrepant results

1973 • 52 citations

Expectancy, false galvanic skin response feedback, and systematic desensitization in the modification of phobic behavior.

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The effects of instructional suggestion and physiological cues on analogue fear

1973 • 47 citations

A standardized desensitization program applicable to group and individual treatments

1970 • 46 citations

Systematic desensitization with pre-treatment and intra-treatment therapeutic instructions

1971 • 45 citations

Systematic desensitization of snake-avoidance following three types of suggestion

1970 • 43 citations

Reduction of human avoidant behavior: A comparison of counterconditioning, expectancy, and cognitive information approaches.

1973 • 41 citations

A further assessment of attention-placebo effects and demand characteristics in studies of systematic desensitization.

1972 • 41 citations

Systematic Desensitization of Snake-Avoidance under Two Conditions of Suggestion

1969 • 41 citations

Imagery in desensitization

1972 • 38 citations

Client-therapist relationship factor in systematic desensitization.

1969 • 37 citations

Expectancy, demand characteristics, and contact desensitization in behavior change

1970 • 37 citations

Systematic desensitization and expectancy in the treatment of speaking anxiety

1972 • 36 citations

Situational factors in behavioral fear assessment: A progress report

1973 • 36 citations

Systematic desensitization of snake-avoidance under three conditions of suggestion

1970 • 34 citations

The role of visual imagery in desensitization

1970 • 32 citations

The effect of suggestion and pretesting on avoidance reduction in fearful subjects

1973 • 29 citations

On self-produced and drug-produced relaxation

1968 • 28 citations

Control of aversive stimulus termination in systematic desensitization

1970 • 27 citations

Systematic desensitization under two conditions of induced expectancy

1972 • 26 citations

Experimental desensitization following therapeutically oriented and physiologically oriented instructions

1971 • 24 citations

A comparison of reciprocal inhibition and operant conditioning in the systematic desensitization of a fear of snakes

1968 • 24 citations

Modification of avoidance behavior: Expectancy, autonomic reactivity, and verbal report.

1972 • 21 citations

Galvanic skin response and reported anxiety during systematic desensitization.

1973 • 21 citations

Self- versus drug-produced relaxation and the effects of instructional set in standardized systematic desensitization

1973 • 21 citations

Cognitive factors in systematic desensitization

1971 • 21 citations

The effects of therapeutically oriented instructions and of the pairing of anxiety imagery and relaxation in systematic desensitization

1972 • 20 citations

The contribution of therapeutic instructions to systematic desensitization

1972 • 19 citations

Experimental desensitization following three types of instructions

1971 • 19 citations

A reply to "Critique of 'Treatment of insomnia by relaxation training': Relaxation training, Rogerian therapy, or demand characteristics."

1972 • 18 citations

Therapy set: Its effects on subjects' involvement in systematic desensitization and treatment outcome.

1974 • 18 citations

Systematic desensitization: distribution of practice and symptom substitution∗

1968 • 16 citations

Role of expectancy manipulation in systematic desensitization.

1973 • 13 citations

Systematic desensitization in an experimental setting: A follow-up study

1969 • 11 citations

Transfer, behavioral improvement, and anxiety reduction in systematic desensitization.

1974 • 6 citations

Recurring assessment of changes in phobic behavior during the course of systematic desensitization

1972 • 5 citations

Cognitive, physiological, and motor effects of systematic desensitization on complex stimulus generalization

1974 • 4 citations