Some good news about rumination: Task-focused thinking after failure facilitates performance improvement

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1057-1073

  Ciarocco, Natalie J ^a   Vohs, Kathleen D ^b   Baumeister, Roy F ^c  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78651319977     PISSN: 07367236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2010.29.10.1057     Document Type: Article

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