Context-Dependent Activation of Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity as an Avoidant Coping Style

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1500-1506

  Debeer, Elise ^a   Raes, Filip ^a   Williams, J Mark G ^b   Hermans, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Autobiographical memory specificity; Cognitive avoidance; Context; Overgeneral memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755163253     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024535     Document Type: Article

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