Anxiety-related biases in children's avoidant responses to a masked angry face

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1639-1645

  Lau, Jennifer Y F ^a   Viding, Essi M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Avoidance; Children; Facial expressions; Fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ANGER; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34247590261     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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