Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety

Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety.

Exposure is an effective treatment for anxiety but many patients do not respond fully. Affect labeling (labeling emotional experience) attenuates emotional responding. The current project examined whether affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness in participants with public speaking anxiety. Participants were randomized to exposure with or without affect labeling. Physiological arousal an...

Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking.

OBJECTIVES a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaking task involving healthy volunteers. METHODS a) The PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge databases w...

The effectiveness of a skills-based program in reducing public speaking anxiety

Research was conducted to test the effectiveness of a skills-based program as a method for reducing anxiety during public speaking. Twenty-five Japanese college sophomores were exposed to a systematic approach for developing a presentation that was theoretically linked to mechanisms to reduce communication apprehension (CA). Students gave four presentations that were graded by both teacher and ...

Continuous and Interrupted Exposure Therapy in the Treatment of Public Speaking Anxiety

The Impact of Stereotypes on Public Speaking Performance and Anxiety