Remembering the silver lining: Reappraisal and positive bias in memory for emotion

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 871-884

  Levine, Linda J ^a   Schmidt, Susanna ^b   Kang, Hannah S ^a   Tinti, Carla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion regulation; Memory bias; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL BIAS; SELF EVALUATION; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; TEST ANXIETY SCALE;

EID: 84863812322     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.625403     Document Type: Article

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