Attentional bias for words and faces in social anxiety

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-36

  Pishyar, Reza ^a   Harris, Lynne M ^a   Menzies, Ross G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Facial stimuli; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842810254     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800310001601458     Document Type: Article

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