Attentional control predicts change in bias in response to attentional bias modification

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 99, Issue , 2017, Pages 47-56

  Basanovic, Julian ^a   Notebaert, Lies ^a   Grafton, Ben ^a   Hirsch, Colette R ^b   Clarke, Patrick J F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Cognition and emotion; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ADULT; EMOTION; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029391291     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.09.002     Document Type: Article

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