Absence of evidence or evidence of absence: Reflecting on therapeutic implementations of attentional bias modification

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Clarke, Patrick J F ^a   Notebaert, Lies ^a   MacLeod, Colin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

ABM; Attentional bias modification; CBM; Cognitive bias modification; Experimental psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE BIAS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; FEMALE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84892871581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-14-8     Document Type: Note

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