Social anxiety and attention away from emotional faces

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 673-690

  Mansell, Warren ^a   Clark, David M ^a,b   Ehlers, Anke ^a   Chen, Yi Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000301031     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999399379032     Document Type: Article

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