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6/24/13 <br />

Behavioral Experiment: Consider <br />

Discarding <br />

• Rate ini8al distress <br />

• Predict dura8on of distress <br />

• Do the experiment (not acquire, discard) <br />

• List thoughts <br />

• Evaluate thoughts <br />

• Re-­‐rate distress <br />

• Discuss outcome of experiment <br />

Behavioral Test of <br />

Hoarding Predic8ons <br />

(top of lost board game box) <br />

• Predic8on 1: “If I throw this away, it will feel <br />

like death.” <br />

• Predic8on 2: “If I throw it away, I will feel this <br />

way (like death) forever.” <br />

Outcome of Predic8ons <br />

Conclusions <strong>and</strong> New <br />

Hypotheses <br />

• One minute ayer discarding <br />

– SUDS ra8ng at 100, but “It does not feel like <br />

death.” <br />

• 24-­‐hours ayer discarding <br />

– SUDS ra8ng at 10. “It doesn’t bother me much at <br />

all.” <br />

• Conclusion -­‐ Neither predic8on came true. <br />

• New Hypotheses <br />

– The thought of throwing things away is worse than <br />

the doing of it. <br />

– If I throw something away that I am deathly afraid <br />

of discarding, it will not feel as bad as I think, <strong>and</strong> <br />

the bad feeling won’t last as long as I think. <br />

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