Effects of False Feedback on Affect, Cognition, Behavior, and Postevent Processing: The Mediating Role of Self-Focused Attention

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-124

  Makkar, Steve R ^a   Grisham, Jessica R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

False feedback; Post event processing; Self focused attention; Social anxiety; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF FOCUSED ATTENTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; BLUSHING; COGNITION; DECEPTION; FEAR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84872357708     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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