Social Anxiety and Content Specificity of Interpretation and Judgemental Bias in Children

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 298-309

  Vassilopoulos, Stephanos P ^a   Banerjee, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive bias; Interpretation; Judgemental bias; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861853247     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.746     Document Type: Article

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