Multidimensional anxiety and content-specificity effects in preferential processing of threat

European Psychologist

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 252-265

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Avero, P ^a   Castillo, M Dolores ^a   Miguel Tobal, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Interpretative bias; Memory bias; Multidimensional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346433746     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1016-9040.8.4.252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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