Looking on the bright side in social anxiety: The potential benefit of promoting positive mental imagery

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Pictet, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias modification; Combined cognitive bias; Mental imagery; Social anxiety; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; COGNITIVE BIAS MODIFICATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION BIAS; NEGATIVE IMAGERY; PERCEPTION; POSITIVE MENTAL IMAGERY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

EID: 84893566105     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00043     Document Type: Article

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