Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-100

  Notebaert, Lies ^a   Clarke, Patrick J F ^a   Grafton, Ben ^a   MacLeod, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias modification; Cognitive bias; Emotional disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOT PROBE TASK; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSON IDENTITY MATCHING TASK; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920903540     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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