Anxiety and the use of strategies in the performance of a sentence-picture verification task

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 132-136

  Richards, Anne ^a   French, Christopher C ^b   Randall, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030069919     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.105.1.132     Document Type: Article

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