Training approach-avoidance of smiling faces affects emotional vulnerability in socially anxious individuals

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Rinck, Mike ^a   Telli, Sibel ^a   Kampmann, Isabel L ^a   Woud, Marcella L ^a   Kerstholt, Merel ^a   te Velthuis, Sarai ^a   Wittkowski, Matthias ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AAT training; Approach avoidancemodification; Faceturn AAT; Socialanxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; APPROACH AVOIDANCE TASK; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933674911     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00481     Document Type: Article

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