There's more to anxiety than meets the eye: Isolating threat-related attentional engagement and disengagement biases

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 520-528

  Sheppes, Gal ^a   Luria, Roy ^b   Fukuda, Keisuke ^b   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Cognitive bias; Disengagement; Engagement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; THREAT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878983308     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031236     Document Type: Article

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