Eye movement desensitization of public-speaking anxiety: a partial dismantling.
Forty college students suffering from public speaking anxiety and having experienced a specific traumatic speech-related event were exposed to either a standard EMD protocol with eye movements; a moving audio stimulus in place of the eye movements; a protocol with eyes resting on the hands in place of the eye movement, or a no-treatment control condition. The results revealed that EMD is comparable in limited effectiveness to the other procedures and that the eye movements are not a crucial component of the treatment with this population.
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Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy