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Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective information (Psychological Bulletin)

Emotions are represented by information structures in memory; anxiety occurs when information structure to escape/avoid danger is activated.

Describes experiments in which happy or sad moods were induced in Ss by hypnotic suggestion to investigate the influence of emotions.

A working definition of the concept of emotional processing is presented, with aim of integrating a set of clinical/experimental observations.

Theory of emotional imagery that conceives the image in the brain to be a conceptual network, controlling specific somatovisceral patterns.

Study of 66 people using a scale of current subjective distress based on a list of commonly reported experiences of intrusion and avoidance.

Develops an analysis of fear imagery in behavior therapy from the combined perspectives of information processing theory and psychophysiology.