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Using the Threat Probability Task to Assess Anxiety and Fear During Uncertain and Certain Threat
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Anxiety, prospective remembering, and performance of planned actions

J A Meacham, S Kushner

    The Journal of General Psychology
    |October 1, 1980
    PubMed

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