The role of emotional engagement and mood valence in retrieval fluency of mood incongruent autobiographical memory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Greenberg, Jonathan ^a   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Emotional engagement; Fluency of autobiographical memories; Mood incongruent retrieval; Valence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897609055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00083     Document Type: Article

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