Limited transfer of threat bias following attentional retraining

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 794-800

  Van Bockstaele, Bram ^a   Koster, Ernst H W ^a   Verschuere, Bruno ^a,b,c   Crombez, Geert ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Threat; Training; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82155187135     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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