Attentional focus moderates the relationship between attention to threat bias and delusion-like experiences in healthy adults

European Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue , 2017, Pages 27-32

  Prochwicz, K ^a   Klosowska J ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Attention to threat bias; Attentional control; Delusion like experiences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; DELUSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; THREAT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994234247     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.06.006     Document Type: Article

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