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Effects of matches and mismatches in agoraphobic and neutral situations
E H Lavy1, M A van den Hout, A Arntz
1Department of Mental Health Sciences/Experimental Psychopathology, Limburg University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Behaviour Research and Therapy
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to investigate the generalizability of Rachman's match/mismatch model and to explore if environmental conditions affect the consequences of an underprediction. Twenty subjects walked around in agoraphobic, and 15 did so in neutral, situations. Both groups carried a walkman and 7 aversive human screams were administered to them at random times. The results gave strong support to previous investigations on matches and mismatches, but no differences were shown between agoraphobic and neutral situations. Possible explanations are discussed.