Social anxiety and the vigilance-avoidance pattern of attentional processing

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-24

  Vassilopoulos, Stephanos Ph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attention bias; Avoidance; Social anxiety; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; THREAT;

EID: 12944283143     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465804001730     Document Type: Article

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