The Effects of Training Contingency Awareness During Attention Bias Modification on Learning and Stress Reactivity

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 638-650

  Lazarov, Amit ^a   Abend, Rany ^a   Seidner, Shiran ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^b   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b National Institute of Mental Health   (Israel)

Author keywords

anxiety; attentional training; explicit information; learning; stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STRESS; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017313507     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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