Brooding and attentional control in processing self-encoded information: Evidence from a modified Garner task

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 876-885

  Daches, Shimrit ^a   Mor, Nilly ^a   Winquist, Jennifer ^b   Gilboa Schechtman, Eva ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bias; Brooding; Executive attention; Rumination; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77954409975     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930902954825     Document Type: Article

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