Temperament moderates the effect of the verbal threat information pathway on children's heart rate responses to novel animals

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 431-436

  Field, Andy P ^a   Price Evans, Khanya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood anxiety; Information processing; Temperament; Verbal information

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPERAMENT; THREAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; TEMPERAMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65049085448     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.01.020     Document Type: Article

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