Automatic avoidance tendencies in individuals with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1058-1062

  Najmi, Sadia ^a   Kuckertz, Jennie M ^b   Amir, Nader ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance task; Avoidance; Contamination; Information processing; Obsessive compulsive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956178625     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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