Content specificity of attention bias to threat in anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-18

  Pergamin Hight, Lee ^a   Naim, Reut ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^b   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Attention bias modification; Threat

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CODING; CONTENT ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STIMULUS; THREAT; ATTENTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; HUMANS;

EID: 84911498967     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2014.10.005     Document Type: Review

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