Orienting and maintenance of gaze in contamination fear: Biases for disgust and fear cues

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 402-408

  Armstrong, Thomas ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a   Sarawgi, Shivali ^a   Simmons, Casey ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Attention; Eye movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORIENTATION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952552581     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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