I feel fine but the glass is still half empty: Thought suppression biases information processing despite recovery from a dysphoric mood state

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-332

  Beevers, Christopher G ^a   Meyer, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Dysphoria; Information processing bias; Mental control; Mood induction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DYSPHORIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THOUGHT SUPPRESSION; WRITING;

EID: 43549114548     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-006-9108-8     Document Type: Article

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