It's all in the anticipation: How perception of threat is enhanced in anxiety

Emotion

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 320-327

  Sussman, Tamara J ^a   Szekely, Akos ^a   Hajcak, Greg ^a   Mohanty, Aprajita ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation; Perception; Shock; Threat; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPOSITIONAL ANXIETY; ERROR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEARFUL FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUCED ANXIETY; MALE; NEUTRAL FACE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTUAL BIAS; PERCEPTUAL SENSITIVITY; PERCEPTUAL THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SHOCK; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; THREAT PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ASSOCIATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ANXIETY; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946434361     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000098     Document Type: Article

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