Memory bias in health anxiety is related to the emotional valence of health-related words

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 263-274

  Ferguson, Eamonn ^a   Moghaddam, Nima G ^a   Bibby, Peter A ^a  

^a Risk Analysis   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health anxiety; Health words; Implicit cognitions; Object evaluation; Recognition memory; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33847174141     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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