Bottom-up and top-down influences of beliefs on emotional responses: Fear of heights in a virtual environment

Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 133-137

  Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Neumann, Roland ^b   Lozo, Ljubica ^b   Müller, Mathias ^a   Hettinger, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Height phobia; Reappraisal; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEIGHT PHOBIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOBIA; VIRTUAL REALITY; FEAR OF HEIGHT; SOCIAL BELIEF; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEAR; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

BELIEF STRUCTURES; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; BOTTOM-UP PROCESS; COGNITIVE APPROACHES; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; HEIGHT PHOBIA; REAPPRAISAL; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CULTURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84872025591     PISSN: 15548716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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