Unconscious responses to threatening pictures: Interactive effect of trait anxiety and social desirability on skin conductance responses

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-18

  Najström, Mats ^a   Jansson, Billy ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Defensiveness; Fear response; Pre attentive processing; Subliminal SCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644610211     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506070510011566     Document Type: Article

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