Approach behavior as information.
Background and Objectives: Anxious individuals infer danger from information about physiological responses, anxiety responses, and safety behaviors. This study investigated whether anxious individuals also infer safety from approach behavior.Methods: 325 students rated the danger they perceived in g...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry Vol. 57; pp. 32 - 37 |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Dec2017
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