Low emotional response to traumatic footage is associated with an absence of analogue flashbacks: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 16 trauma film paradigm experiments

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 702-713

  Clark, Ian A ^a   Mackay, Clare E ^a   Holmes, Emily A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flashbacks; Intrusions; Mental imagery; Peritraumatic emotions; Trauma film paradigm

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FILM; HUMAN; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; MOOD CHANGE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RECOGNITION; TERRORISM; ADULT; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928590411     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.926861     Document Type: Article

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