Cascading effects: The influence of attention bias to threat on the interpretation of ambiguous information

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 244-251

  White, Lauren K ^a   Suway, Jenna G ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^b   Bar Haim, Yair ^c   Fox, Nathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention bias; Attention training; Information processing; Interpretive bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; STRESS; THREAT; TRAINING;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952709969     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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