Response intensity in content-specific fear conditioning comparing 20% versus 13% CO2-enriched air as unconditioned stimuli

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-304

  Forsyth, John P ^a,b   Eifert, Georg H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0031837543     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.107.2.291     Document Type: Article

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