The Cognitive Building Blocks of Emotion Regulation: Ability to Update Working Memory Moderates the Efficacy of Rumination and Reappraisal on Emotion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Pe, Madeline Lee ^a   Raes, Filip ^a   Kuppens, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAPPRAISAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BELGIUM; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880430188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069071     Document Type: Article

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