The primary goal of this working group is to examine the role of post-exposure pride in exposure therapy. Recent research suggests that post-exposure pride may be associated with successful treatment, indicating that strengthening pride represents a promising and currently underexplored target. Major aims are the development and examination of post-exposure interventions to increase post-exposure pride, with the ultimate aim of improving outcomes of exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy. As a first step, the working group aims to develop and empirically evaluate a brief intervention designed to enhance feelings of pride following exposure. First, a pilot study aims to test a brief intervention to enhance state pride after exposure, including positive reinforcement for completing exposure, a short cognitive intervention, and instructions to savor feelings of pride following exposure. Given the particular relevance of pride in the context of social anxiety disorder, the intervention will be tested in individuals with elevated public speaking anxiety who complete speech exposures in a VR environment. Once established, the benefits of the pride intervention for reduction of public speaking anxiety will be tested in a team science approach across collaborating sites through the Exposure Therapy Consortium, allowing for replication of all findings across diverse study sites across the world.