Conditioning and transfer of affective self-references in a role-played counseling interview

Tested the differential effects of 5 forms of therapy-like intervention in the conditioning and transfer of affective self-references (ASRs) in a 40-min role-played initial counseling interview with 72 female undergraduates. Conditioning of ASRs and transfer to a TAT story-telling task were found, although hypothesized relationships between discriminative cue potency of the interventions and performance were only partially supported. An explanation involving the presumed interaction of S awareness of her own self-disclosures with intervention type, degree of threat, and conditioning performance is proposed.