The Role of Autobiographical Memory Networks in the Experience of Negative Emotions: How Our Remembered Past Elicits Our Current Feelings

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1279-1290

  Philippe, Frederick L ^a   Koestner, Richard ^a   Lecours, Serge ^b   Beaulieu Pelletier, Genevieve ^b   Bois, Katy ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Need thwarting; Negative emotions; Networked memories; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE EMOTION; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONTROL; THEORY;

ANGER; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755205294     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025848     Document Type: Article

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