The impact of worry on attention to threat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Oathes, Desmond J ^a,b   Squillante, Christian M ^c   Ray, William J ^d   Nitschke, Jack B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS;

EID: 78149442648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013411     Document Type: Article

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