Looking out for danger: An attentional bias towards spatially predictable threatening stimuli

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1150-1154

  Notebaert, Lies ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Classical conditioning; Fear; Hypervigilance; Predictability; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SKIN STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957864706     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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