Processing of Threat-Related Information in Rape Victims

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 156-162

  Foa, Edna B ^a   Feske, Ulrike ^a   Murdock, Tamera B ^a   Kozak, Michael J ^a   McCarthy, Paul R ^a  

^a Sterling Medical Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAPE; THREAT;

COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RAPE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 85034881991     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.100.2.156     Document Type: Article

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