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Recent years have seen a growing concern in the psychometric properties of behavioural assessment procedures. The present study addresses itself to the question of the possible reactivity of the behavioural assessment of fear, a situation predicted both by the experimental extinction and incubation models.
In a single case study it was found that a 50% reduction in self-reported fear was associated with the behavioural assessment, though there was no evidence of a reduction of fear associated with “verbal therapy”. It is suggested that: (i) behavioural assessments of fear are reactive; (ii) that they produce a reduction in fear; and (iii) that this is consistent with an extinction model.
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