Enhanced early emotional intrusion effects and proportional habituation of threat response for symptom and illness words in college students with elevated health anxiety

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 818-842

  Witthöft, Michael ^a   Rist, Fred ^b   Bailer, Josef ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Emotional Stroop; Health anxiety; Hypochondriasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOM; THREAT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 55949112402     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-007-9159-5     Document Type: Article

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