Does threatening imagery sensitize distress during contaminant exposure?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-413

  Dorfan, Nicole M ^a   Woody, Sheila R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Disgust; Fear reduction; Looming vulnerability; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE;

EID: 31544447993     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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