Engaging with the wrong people: The basis of selective attention to negative faces in social anxiety

Clinical Psychological Science

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 793-804

  Grafton, Ben ^a,b   Macleod, Colin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Attentional probe task; Disengagement; Engagement; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

EID: 84995493637     PISSN: 21677026     EISSN: 21677034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2167702615616344     Document Type: Article

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