Varying expectancies and the attention bias in phobic and nonphobic individuals

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Aue, Tatjana ^a   Guex, Raphaël ^a   Chauvigné, Léa A S ^a   Okon Singer, Hadas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention bias; Biological preparedness; Expectancy bias; Fear; Phobia; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPECTANCY BIAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PHOBIA; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPIDER PHOBIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933676211     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00418     Document Type: Article

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