The effect of disgust on anxiety ratings to fear-relevant, disgust-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1347-1354

  Davey, Graham C L ^a   MacDonald, Benie A ^a   Brierley, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxious psychopathology; Disgust; Disgust relevant; Fear relevant; Homophone task; Threat interpretation bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISGUST; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45149094112     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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