Attention bias modification for reducing speech anxiety

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 882-888

  McNally, Richard J ^a   Enock, Philip M ^a   Tsai, Cynthia ^a   Tousian, Mona ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention bias modification; Attentional bias; Cognitive bias modification; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PUBLIC SPEAKING; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANXIETY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE BIAS MODIFICATION; SOCIAL ANXIETY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CUES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SELF REPORT; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 84887224572     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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