Evidence for expectancy as a mediator of avoidance and anxiety in a laboratory model of human avoidance learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1199-1216

  Lovibond, Peter F ^a   Saunders, J Clare ^a   Weidemann, Gabrielle ^a   Mitchell, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 47249099854     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701503229     Document Type: Article

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