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A comparison of response exaggeration techniques
Author(s) -
Gottlieb Bruce S.,
McNamara J. Regis
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197910)35:4<776::aid-jclp2270350418>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - exaggeration , psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , social anxiety , developmental psychology , psychiatry
Compared the effectiveness of several response exaggeration techniques. Socially anxious college males ( N = 34) were instructed to exaggerate some component of social anxiety onset. One group exaggerated their attending to manifestations of their anxiety, two groups exaggerated either a relevant or irrelevant anxiety response, a fourth group imagined an exaggerated consequence of their anxiety, and a fifth group served as a placebo control. All groups reported a greater willingness to initiate and maintain an interaction with a female and displayed less anxiety in a role‐playing situation; no differential treatment effects were found. These findings fail to support results from other studies that attested to the efficacy of response exaggeration techniques.