Unique affective and cognitive processes in contamination appraisals: Implications for contamination fear

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-35

  Cisler, Josh M ^a,b   Adams, Thomas G ^a   Brady, Robert E ^a   Bridges, Ana J ^a   Lohr, Jeffrey M ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Contamination fear; Disgust; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTAMINATION FEAR; EYE FIXATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650250737     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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