Looking on the dark side: Rumination and cognitive-bias modification

Clinical Psychological Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 714-726

  Hertel, Paula ^a   Mor, Nilly ^b   Ferrari, Chiara ^a   Hunt, Olivia ^a   Agrawal, Nupur ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brooding; Cognitive bias modification; Interpretation bias; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919657726     PISSN: 21677026     EISSN: 21677034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2167702614529111     Document Type: Article

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