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ERIC Number: EJ500355
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
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Reducing Fear of the Laboratory Rat: A Participant Modeling Approach.
Barber, Nigel
Teaching of Psychology, v21 n4 p228-32 Dec 1994
Reports on the use of participant modeling in a study of 56 college-level students to reduce fear of laboratory rats. Discovers that even mild exposure reduced fear significantly. Finds that women were more fearful initially but that their fear reduction was equal to that of men. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Experimental Psychology, Females, Higher Education, Males, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning, Psychology, Sex Differences, Student Attitudes, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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