Time course of attentional bias for threat scenes: Testing the vigilance-avoidance hyporthesis

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 689-700

  Mogg, Karin ^a   Bradley, Brendan P ^a   Miles, Felicity ^b   Dixon, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INJURY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TIME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 4344627467     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930341000158     Document Type: Article

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