Behavior as information: "If i avoid, then there must be a danger"

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1032-1038

  Gangemi, Amelia ^a,b   Mancini, Francesco ^b   Van Den Hout, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva APC   (Italy)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Behavior as information; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Panic disorder; Safety seeking behaviors; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT SAFETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84861471922     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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