Uncontrolled avoidance of threat: Vigilance-avoidance, executive control, inhibition and shifting

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1465-1473

  Booth, Robert W ^a  

^a ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Executive control; Inhibition; Shifting; Vigilance avoidance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RESPONSE TIME; THREAT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; FEAR; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907420163     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.882294     Document Type: Article

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