Components of attentional bias to threat in high trait anxiety: Facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and attentional avoidance

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1757-1771

  Koster, Ernst H W ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   Verschuere, Bruno ^a   Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Wiersema, Jan Roelf ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional bias; Avoidance; Spatial cueing; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME;

EID: 33749564336     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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