Cough is dangerous:Neural correlates of implicit body symptoms associations

The negative interpretation of body sensations (e.g., as sign of a severe illness) is a crucial cognitive process in pathological health anxiety (HA). However, little is known about the nature and the degree of automaticity of this interpretation bias. We applied an implicit association test (IAT) i...

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Main Authors: Daniela eMier, Michael eWitthöft, Josef eBailer, Julia eOfer, Tobias eKerstner, Fred eRist, Carsten eDiener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00247/full