desensitization

• “The desensitization is the other thing, where they see it over and over, after a while, it stops having a real emotional impact.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2003

• “More serious cases will receive what Burghardt calls "desensitization counter-conditioning," which entails exposing the dog at a safe distance to a sight or sound that might trigger a reaction - a gunshot, a loud bang or a vehicle, for instance.”

  The Seattle Times

• “The fact that he finds it necessary to take refuge to foaming rhetoric is based on something that biologists call desensitization, i.e. a drug loosing its effect due to overuse, so that in a vicious cycle higher and higer doses are needed to elicit less and less of an effect.”

  MoJo Blogs and Articles

• “Hence the need for the new kidney match-making called desensitization aimed at patients like Preloh who otherwise might not get a chance at a new organ.”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz

• “The process that is then used is called desensitization and that is basically replacing a bad experience or habit with a good one.”

  Quit Smoking Tobacco

• “(The fancy word for this is "desensitization", but better to avoid it.)”

  Forbes: You Are In Control--Scary, Right?

• “Sex educators (before the abstinence only people made them stop talking about sex at all, which is a whole other story), use a technique called "desensitization" to help people get to where they can talk sensibly about previously verboten facts such as the proper names for body parts.”

  Gloria Feldt: Memo About Hillary Clinton: Guys, Get Over It

• “COOPER LAWRENCE, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Let ` s be clear what the word "desensitization" means in this context.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2007

• “You know, this kind of desensitization to violence is definitely not something unique to this country.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006

• “The main treatment for hoplophobia is the psychological process known as "desensitization," the same methodology used for people with fear of spiders, open spaces or heights.”

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