Money talks in attention bias modification: Reward in a dot-probe task affects attentional biases

Visual Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 118-132

  Sigurjónsdóttir, Ólafía ^a   Björnsson, Andri S ^a   Ludvigsdóttir, Sigurbjörg J ^b   Kristjánsson, Árni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b The Icelandic Center for Treatment of Anxiety Disorders   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Attention bias; Attention bias modification; Dot probe task; Reward; Social anxiety disorder; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA SCALE;

EID: 84928938450     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2014.984797     Document Type: Article

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