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Failure to replicate evidence for phobic schemata in agoraphobic patients
Author(s) -
Pickles A. J.,
Broek M. D.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1988.tb00788.x
Subject(s) - agoraphobia , psychology , replicate , recall , anxiety , cognition , clinical psychology , anxiety disorder , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
Two experiments incorporating methodological refinements were conducted to replicate previous findings that agoraphobics selectively recall phobic material compared with normal subjects. In addition, patients with anxiety states but no phobic symptomatology were studied to assess whether selective recall is specific to agoraphobia or a feature of anxious patients generally. The results of both studies failed to replicate previous findings and fail to offer support for recent theorizing regarding the presence of cognitive differences between agoraphobics and normals.