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Giant Brain Candy: Say It to the Spider. People afraid of spiders who put their fear into words beside a live tarantula showed a smaller bodily fear response a week later, facing a different spider in another setting, than those who reframed or distracted. Source: Naming fear during exposure.
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  1. Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23(10), 1086–1091.

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Say It to the Spider

People afraid of spiders who put their fear into words beside a live tarantula showed a smaller bodily fear response a week later, facing a different spider in another setting, than those who reframed or distracted.

Source: Naming fear during exposure · Growing evidence

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