Thoughts on Experimental Psychopathology

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 2017, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 141-154

  van den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a   McNally, Richard J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Experimental Psychopathology; Learning Theory and CBT; Reductionism; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85136376544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/PR.045115     Document Type: Article

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