Measuring attentional bias to threat in children and adolescents: A matter of speed?

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 344-351

  Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Children; Fear; Hypervigilance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CHILD; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 64849111614     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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