Effects of suppressing thoughts about incomplete events

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-51

  Kimura, Haruka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Incomplete stories; Paradoxical effects; Rumination; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042854712     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.52.1_44     Document Type: Article

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