Reduced Specificity of Emotional Autobiographical Memories Following Self-Regulation Depletion

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 731-736

  Neshat Doost, Hamid Taher ^a,b   Dalgleish, Tim ^b   Golden, Ann Marie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory specificity; ego depletion; overgeneral memory; self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOREGULATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849409179     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013507     Document Type: Article

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