Introduction
phobias, phobia, anxiety
DISORDERS
Individuals who display a certain fear often show an increased predisposition to develop another fear [The most effective intervention to attenuate exaggerated fears is exposure therapy, which is considered a first-line evidence-based treatment for phobia and anxiety disorders [While exposure can lead to reductions in fear and avoidance, observations of therapeutic effects of exposure have usually been restricted to the treated context [Building on this previous research, the current study was therefore designed to test whether the observed exposure treatment generalization can also be demonstrated for untreated stimuli which do not share any perceptual resemblance and belong to a different fear category. Given that fears and phobias related to spiders and heights are relatively common in the general population [