Spider fear and covariation bias in children and adolescents

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2604-2615

  Muris, Peter ^a   Huijding, Jorg ^a   Mayer, Birgit ^a   den Breejen, Erwin ^a   Makkelie, Melanie ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Cognitive bias; Covariation bias; Spider fear

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; FLOWER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOBIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIDER; SPIDER FEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SPIDERS;

EID: 34948873658     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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