"Will a Cuscus bite you, if he shows his teeth?" Inducing a fear-related confirmation bias in children by providing verbal threat information to their mothers

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 540-546

  Remmerswaal, Danielle ^a   Muris, Peter ^a   Mayer, Birgit ^a   Smeets, Guus ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Confirmation bias; Fear; Mothers; Threat information

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; THREAT; VERBAL THREAT; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952541311     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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