The time course of attentional bias for emotional faces in anxious children

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1173-1181

  Waters, Allison M ^a   Kokkoris, Liza L ^a   Mogg, Karin ^b   Bradley, Brendan P ^b   Pine, Daniel S ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Children; Emotional faces

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; TIME;

EID: 77957746952     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903274355     Document Type: Article

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