Interpretive bias in social phobia: An ERP study with morphed emotional schematic faces

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-95

  Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a,b   Kolassa, Stephan ^a   Bergmann, Sandra ^a   Lauche, Romy ^a   Dilger, Stefan ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang ^a   Musial, Frauke ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 58049213909     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930801940461     Document Type: Article

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