On the costs and benefits of directing attention towards or away from threat-related stimuli: A classical conditioning experiment

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 692-697

  Van Bockstaele, Bram ^a   Verschuere, Bruno ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Attentional bias; Attentional training; Extinction; Fear; Reacquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL PROCESSING THEORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RATING SCALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953359269     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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