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The Effects of Safety Behaviors on Health Anxiety: Conceptualizing Hypochondriasis as an Anxiety Disorder
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
The Effect of Encouragement on Defensive Pessimism as an Anxiety Amplifier
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...