Continual training of attentional bias in social anxiety

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 905-912

  Li, Songwei ^a   Tan, Jieqing ^a   Qian, Mingyi ^a   Liu, Xinghua ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Continual training; Dot probe paradigm; Facial stimuli; Society anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION BIAS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE EVALUATION SCALE; PERSONALITY TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA SCALE; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGATIVISM; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149093143     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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