Tweet Tweet 0 0 Recommend S S Tags: Touch | Spider | psychologists | Feelings | experience | anxious Label your fear to get over it IANS Sep 10, 2012, 12.00AM IST Can describing your feelings when you are particularly stressed make you less anxious? A new study suggests it may very well be so. A new psychology study by the University of California-Los Angeles suggests that labelling your emotions at the moment you are confronting what you fear can indeed have the effect of reducing anxiety. Ads by Google LAP BAND Centers -East LA East Los Angeles Weight Loss Center Highly Rated! PPO, 100% Finance LapBandVIP.com University of Phoenix® Official Site. College Degrees for the Real World. Get Started Today. Phoenix.edu The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to approach a large, live tarantula in an open container outdoors. They were told to walk closer and closer to the spider and eventually touch it, if they could, the journal "Psychological Science" reports. The subjects were then divided into groups and sat in front of another tarantula in a container in an indoor setting. In the first group, the subjects were asked to describe the emotions they were experiencing and to label their reactions to the tarantula -- saying, for example, "I'm anxious and frightened by the ugly, terrifying spider". "Here, there was no attempt to change their experience, participants just stated what they were experiencing," said Michelle Craske, professor of psychology at UCLA and senior study author, according to a UCLA statement. In a second group, the subjects used more neutral terms that did not convey their fear or disgust and were aimed at making the experience seem less threatening. They might say, for example, "That little spider can't hurt me; I'm not afraid of it". In a third group, the subjects said something irrelevant to the experience, and in a fourth group, the subjects did not say anything -- they were simply exposed to the spider. All the participants were re-tested in the outdoor setting one week later and were again asked to get closer and closer to the tarantula and potentially touch it with a finger. The researchers found that the first group did far better than the other groups. These people were able to get closer to the tarantula -- much closer than those in the third RELATED ARTICLES Panicked upper Assam villagers on spider-killing spree June 7, 2012 'Spider bite cannot cause human death' June 8, 2012 Spider venom to treat breast cancer October 24, 2011 IN-DEPTH COVERAGE Spider Ads by Google Health & Fitness The Times of India Advanced Search » Home City India World Business Tech Sports Entertainment Life & Style Women Hot on the Web Spirituality NRI IPL 2012 Photos Times Now Videos LIVE TV Relationships Health & Fitness Beauty Travel People Food Books Home & Garden Fashion Parties Specials Debate Women Health Fitness Diet Specials You are here: Home > Collections > Spider Label your fear to get over it - Times Of India http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-10/health/3... 1 of 2 9/12/12 11:51 AM
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Label your fear to get over itIANS Sep 10, 2012, 12.00AM IST
Can describing your feelings when you areparticularly stressed make you less anxious? A newstudy suggests it may very well be so.
A new psychology study by the University ofCalifornia-Los Angeles suggests that labelling youremotions at the moment you are confronting whatyou fear can indeed have the effect of reducinganxiety.
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The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to approach a large, live tarantula inan open container outdoors. They were told to walk closer and closer to the spider andeventually touch it, if they could, the journal "Psychological Science" reports.
The subjects were then divided into groups and sat in front of another tarantula in a containerin an indoor setting. In the first group, the subjects were asked to describe the emotions theywere experiencing and to label their reactions to the tarantula -- saying, for example, "I'manxious and frightened by the ugly, terrifying spider".
"Here, there was no attempt to change their experience, participants just stated what they wereexperiencing," said Michelle Craske, professor of psychology at UCLA and senior study author,according to a UCLA statement.
In a second group, the subjects used more neutral terms that did not convey their fear ordisgust and were aimed at making the experience seem less threatening. They might say, forexample, "That little spider can't hurt me; I'm not afraid of it".
In a third group, the subjects said something irrelevant to the experience, and in a fourthgroup, the subjects did not say anything -- they were simply exposed to the spider.
All the participants were re-tested in the outdoor setting one week later and were again askedto get closer and closer to the tarantula and potentially touch it with a finger.
The researchers found that the first group did far better than the other groups.
These people were able to get closer to the tarantula -- much closer than those in the third
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