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Publication Date: 2008-Apr-1
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Attentional Bias for Emotional Faces in Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Waters, Allison M.; Mogg, Karin; Bradley, Brendan P.; Pine, Daniel S.
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, v47 n4 p435-442 Apr 2008
Attentional bias for angry and happy faces in 7-12 year old children with general anxiety disorder (GAD) is examined. Results suggest that an attentional bias toward threat faces depends on a certain degree of clinical severity and/or the type of anxiety diagnosis in children.
Descriptors: Attention, Anxiety, Human Body, Psychological Patterns, Children, Nonverbal Communication, Severity (of Disability), Evaluation, Clinical Diagnosis
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