Adam Guastella
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156 appearances
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first heard Mar 2019
last heard Mar 2019
Adam Guastella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then we'd put them in controlled environments with spiders to test out those beliefs.
For example, we might have someone just stand three meters away from a spider in a box where uh it can't get out.
And just watch it and just see what happens.
And in that time, the person's learning about what spiders do, but they're also learning about their own ability to
cope with the spider in their presence and they cope with their own anxiety.
And what we know is you can put people in their
worst nightmare situations and if it's a safe place and and nothing bad does happen.
they'll be fine, they'll cope and their anxiety will go down.
And so eventually
over time their anxiety goes down.
And so then you might get the person to go a bit closer and go a bit closer.
And as they get closer they'll start to have doubts again about, oh, if I get any closer maybe the spider will come and get me.
Oh, maybe it's asleep, maybe it doesn't even know I'm here.
He'll have all these excuses around
why they're not being attacked, which is inconsistent with their beliefs.
And then eventually you'll get them to a point where they're doing something with the spider.
So we'll get them to open the box up and maybe put their fingers in the container and
And see what happens and they'll the spider will do nothing or they'll we get a chopstick and get them to move the spider and the spider will run from one thing to the other side of the box to the other and sometimes rear up but it won't actually lunge at them and try and harm them.
And through all these corrective experiences
The person gradually learns
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