Information processing in spider phobics: The Stroop colour naming task may indicate strategic but not automatic attentional bias

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-144

  Thorpe, Susan J ^a   Salkovskis, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARACHNOPHOBIA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PANIC; PHOBIA; SPIDER;

EID: 0031027380     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(96)00093-9     Document Type: Article

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