Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Spider Fearful Children: The Approach-Avoidance Task

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 224-231

  Klein, Anke M ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a   Rinck, Mike ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approach and avoidance; Behavior; Children; Cognitive biases; Spider fear

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952283112     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-010-9402-7     Document Type: Article

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