Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: Trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 832-837

  Boddez, Yannick ^a   Vervliet, Bram ^a   Baeyens, Frank ^a   Lauwers, Stephanie ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Blocking; Generalization; Stimulus competition; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPECTANCY; EXPECTANCY BIAS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84155173351     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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