Effects of a Multi-session Cognitive Bias Modification Program on Interpretative Biases and Social Anxiety Symptoms in a Sample of Iranian Socially-Anxious Students

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 514-527

  Khalili Torghabeh, Saemeh ^a   Fadardi, Javad Salehi ^a   Mackintosh, Bundy ^b   Reynolds, Shirley ^c   Mobini, Sirous ^d  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive bias modification; negative interpretation; social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017130010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.037713     Document Type: Article

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