Trained interpretive bias: Validity and effects on anxiety

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 212-224

  Salemink, Elske ^a   van den Hout, Marcel ^a   Kindt, Merel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Causality; Extrinsic affective Simon task; Interpretive bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33947526224     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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