Is rumination after bereavement linked with loss avoidance? Evidence from eye-tracking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Eisma, Maarten C ^a   Schut, Henk A W ^a   Stroebe, Margaret S ^a,b   Van Den Bout, Jan ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a,b   Boelen, Paul A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RUMINATION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANXIETY; EYE MOVEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING;

EID: 84916892841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104980     Document Type: Article

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