When love is not blind: Rumination impairs implicit affect regulation in response to romantic relationship threat

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 506-518

  Jostmann, Nils B ^a   Karremans, Johan ^b   Finkenauer, Catrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit affect regulation; Relationship threat; Romantic relationships; Rumination; State orientation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LOVE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RUMINATION; THREAT;

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; THINKING; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79952730585     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.541139     Document Type: Article

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