Timing of treatment and return of fear: Effects of massed, uniform-, and expanding-spaced exposure schedules

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Maximizing Exposure Therapy: An Inhibitory Learning Approach (2014, unknown): “We found that variability in terms of timing between exposure sessions (i.e., progressively longer intervals between exposure sessions) led to superior outcomes at follow-up than nonvariable-massed exposure in spider fearful samples (Rowe & Craske, 1998; Tsao & Craske, 2000).”
Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy. (2008, methodology): “For example, we (Tsao & Craske, 2000) evaluated four, 7min in vivo exposure trials to a public-speaking task, in a massed format on the same day, or over uniform or expanding spaced schedules across 4 days.”
Context, ambiguity, and unlearning: sources of relapse after behavioral extinction. (2002, background): “Based on this sort of finding, Craske and her collaborators tested different ways of scheduling exposure therapy sessions over time (e.g., Rowe and Craske 1998; Tsao and Craske 2000).”
Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: An Inhibitory Learning and Inhibitory Regulation Approach (2015, background): “In accord, we have shown that progressively increasing amount of time between exposure practices (such as 1 day, 4 days, 10 days) is more effective at follow-up than massed exposure in 2 studies of spider-fearful samples [Rowe and Craske, 1998a; Tsao and Craske, 2000].”