Anxiety and memory: A recall bias for threatening words in high anxiety

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 531-542

  Reidy, John ^a   Richards, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; THREAT; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030995553     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00001-6     Document Type: Article

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