Quantitative and qualitative aspects of cancer knowledge - Comparing hypochondriacal subjects and healthy controls

Psychology and Health

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1005-1014

  Haenen, Marie Anne ^a   Schmidt, Anton J M ^a   Schoenmakers, Mieke ^a   Van Den Hout, Marcel A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory bias; Hypochondriasis; Knowledge about cancer; Misinterpretation; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032251041     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870449808407445     Document Type: Article

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