Imprisoned by the past: Unhappy moods lead to a retrospective bias to mind wandering

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1481-1490

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a   O'Connor, Rory C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mental time travel; Mind wandering; Mood; Task unrelated thought

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIND WANDERING; MOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VIDEORECORDING; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 84855694125     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.545263     Document Type: Article

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