Some methodological issues in assessing attentional biases for threatening faces in anxiety: A replication study using a modified version of the probe detection task

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 595-604

  Mogg, Karin ^a   Bradley, Brendan P ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032939684     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00158-2     Document Type: Article

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