Individual differences in predicting aversive events and modulating contextual anxiety in a context and cue conditioning paradigm

Biological Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-25

  Baas, Johanna M P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Conditioning; Context; Cue; Startle; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871715692     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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