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3 - Perceptual Mechanisms of Anxiety and Its Disorders

from Section 1 - Basic Mechanisms in Fear and Anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Wen Li
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 59 - 88
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