... versus therapeutic effects or behavioural change that remains specific to the context in which the success was achieved. Say, in the case of a spider phobia.

One example I have is that someone with social anxiety may experience anxiety specifically in one-on-one situations but may lose all inhibitions in a setting where spectator group size exceeds 5 or 8. Maybe they learned to face their fear in school where they were forced to do presentations and hence lost this aspect of their fear. But the effect did not generalise to small groups.

But then lets say youre afraid of kissing someone, and then you finally through exposure are able to kiss a Brunette Woman... But then the effect only is there fore brunette women, but not for read haired ones... This would be very unlikely.. Very probably the effect would generalise to kissing women with all kinds of haircolour..

My question is whether there is a common denominator to either group of effect, the ones that generalise and the ones that don't, in a therapeutic or coaching context.

Thanks.