Experimental Manipulation of Beliefs about Uncertainty: Effects on Interpretive Processing and Access to Threat Schemata

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Deschenes, Sonya S ^a   Dugas, Michel J ^a,b   Radomsky, Adam S ^a   Buhr, Kristin ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c North Shore Stress and Anxiety Clinic   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive processing; experimental manipulation; interpretive bias; Intolerance of uncertainty; threat schemata; worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891744736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.008510     Document Type: Article

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