Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine?

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Krátký, Jan ^a   Lang, Martin ^a,b   Shaver, John H ^c   Jerotijević, Danijela ^d   Xygalatas, Dimitris ^b,e  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Automated behavior; Ritual; Ritualized behavior; Routine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984982138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2016.1174799     Document Type: Article

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