Anxiety and cognition
Current Opinion in PsychiatryPublished 1 November 1996
Adrian Wells, Gerald Matthews
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Abstract
Biased cognitive processes are a feature of anxiety disorders. Bias has been shown in objective performance tasks and in self-report studies. Theoretical and empirical data linking biased processing, self-regulation strategies, attention and metacognition to anxiety disorder are reviewed and the theoretical and clinical implications of these data are discussed.
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