Threat-detection and precaution: Introduction to the special issue

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 989-990

  Woody, Erik ^a   Boyer, Pascal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAZARD; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SECURITY; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951579339     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.011     Document Type: Editorial

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