Resistance to extinction of conditioned electrodermal responses: A study of the incubation fear hypothesis

Psychological Reports

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-46

  Sandin, Bonifacio ^a   Chorot, Paloma ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0036689228     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.1.37     Document Type: Article

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