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Social Support and Enhanced Fear Extinction Study

This study is looking at whether seeing an image of someone who supports you (social support) can help reduce fear, especially for people with anxiety. Researchers at UCLA want to see if this "Social Support" intervention, where you look at a picture of a supportive person during a fear-reducing procedure, works for both healthy adults and those diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. They will measure your fear response right after the procedure and again 24 hours later. They plan to enroll 100 participants, aged 18-55, who are fluent in English. You can join if you are a healthy adult without a history of mental illness, or if you have a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder.

Study design
This interventional study plans to enroll 100 participants, including healthy adults and those with social anxiety disorder. It is not specified if this study is randomized or blinded.
What's involved
Not specified in the trial record.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Your fear response will be measured directly after the fear extinction procedure and again 24 hours later.

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NCT04565041

Social Support and Enhanced Fear Extinction

Active, Not Recruiting
NAAges 18–55InterventionalBasic science
University of California, Los Angeles
~100 participants
Updated 2026-08-11 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Social Support

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Fear response directly post-extinction
Measured over within experimental session - directly post-extinction procedure
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Fear
Anxiety

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NCT04565041

Where you'd take part

This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • UCLA Department of Psychology

    Los Angeles, Californiano site contact published

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

Who to contact

This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

healthy adults 18 to 55
fluent in English
no history of mental illness (healthy participants: including anxiety, depression, phobia, or any other mental health related disorder diagnosed by a mental health professional)
diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (anxious participants: allowed co-morbid disorders include depression, other anxiety disorders, and PTSD)

Exclusion

pregnant or planning to become pregnant during the experiment period
presence of chronic mental illness (healthy participants: as determined by the report of a past diagnosis of mental illness by a physician or psychologist and/or the prescription of medication related to mental health disorder; including anxiety, depression, phobia, or any other diagnosed psychological disorder)
presence of non-allowed co-morbid disorders (anxious participants: including, bipolar disorder, psychosis, substance use disorder, neurological disorder, and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder)
current and regular use of prescription medications related to mental health disorders

What this trial measures

  • Fear response directly post-extinctionwithin experimental session - directly post-extinction procedure

    presence of fear response as indicated by significantly higher galvanic skin response (GSR: an index of peripheral stress responding) to a previously learned fearful image (CS+) compared to a baseline comparator (CS-: never learned to be fearful).

  • Fear response 24 hours post-extinction24 hours following the completion of fear extinction procedures

    presence of fear response as indicated by significantly higher galvanic skin response (GSR: an index of peripheral stress responding) to a previously learned fearful image (CS+) compared to a baseline comparator (CS-: never learned to be fearful).