Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety as Detected by Event-Related Brain Potentials

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 693-700

  Moser, Jason S ^a,b   Hajcak, Greg ^c   Huppert, Jonathan D ^b   Foa, Edna B ^b   Simons, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

event related potentials; interpretation bias; P600; social anxiety; social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL BIAS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849431360     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013173     Document Type: Article

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