Anxiety sensitivity: The role of conscious awareness and selective attentional bias to physical threat

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 418-428

  Hunt, Caroline ^a   Keogh, Edmund ^b   French, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Dot probe paradigm; Selective attention; Subliminal; Supraliminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREAT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AWARENESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33748310686     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.418     Document Type: Article

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