{"id":7686,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/desensitizing\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:33","slug":"desensitizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/desensitizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Desensitizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A part of debriefing, it is an attempt to remove any undesirable consequences of participation in research through restoring the participant to a state of emotional well-being following deception. &nbsp;There is evidence that desensitizing does not always this goal as participants can be made aware of any unflattering behavior they may have revealed during an experiment. &nbsp;In a completely different context, there is systematic desensitisation:&nbsp;a technique employed in behavior therapy for treating phobias, and devised by <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_g2699\/is_0006\/ai_2699000655\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_g2699\/is_0006\/ai_2699000655\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Wolpe<\/a> (1915-1997).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behavior_modification\">Behavior modification<\/a>, Beneficience, <a href=\"debriefing\">Debriefing<\/a>, <a href=\"dehoaxing\">Dehoaxing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A part of debriefing, it is an attempt to remove any undesirable consequences of participation in research through restoring the participant to a state of emotional well-being following deception. &nbsp;There is evidence that desensitizing does not always this goal as participants can be made aware of any unflattering behavior they may have revealed during an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/desensitizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desensitizing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}