Asking 'why' from a distance facilitates emotional processing: A reanalysis of Wimalaweera and Moulds (2008)

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-92

  Ayduk, Ozlem ^a   Kross, Ethan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Avoidance; Emotional processing; Psychological distance; Rumination

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SELF CONCEPT;

AFFECT; ANGER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THINKING;

EID: 57649149243     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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