Treatment sensitivity of implicit threat evaluation, avoidance tendency and visual working memory bias in specific phobia

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 321-328

  Reinecke, Andrea ^a   Soltau, Christian ^b   Hoyer, Jürgen ^c   Becker, Eni S ^d   Rinck, Mike ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Bias; Cognitive behaviour therapy; Implicit association; Phobia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

APPROACH AVOIDANCE TASK; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRINSIC AFFECTIVE SIMON TASK; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOBIA; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPIDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856256423     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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