Attention Biases to Threat and Behavioral Inhibition in Early Childhood Shape Adolescent Social Withdrawal

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 349-357

  Pérez Edgar, Koraly ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^b   McDermott, Jennifer Martin ^c   Chronis Tuscano, Andrea ^d   Pine, Daniel S ^e   Fox, Nathan A ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

attention biases; behavioral inhibition; social withdrawal; temperament

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; REACTION TIME; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; THREAT;

EID: 77953265729     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018486     Document Type: Article

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