Social anxiety and evaluation of social crowds: Explicit and implicit measures

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 932-943

  Lange, Wolf Gero ^a   Keijsers, Ger ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a   Rinck, Mike ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance behavior; Crowd; Implicit evaluation; Interpretation; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47149084683     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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