Heightened ruminative disposition is associated with impaired attentional disengagement from negative relative to positive information: support for the “impaired disengagement” hypothesis

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 422-434

  Southworth, Felicity ^a   Grafton, Ben ^b,c   MacLeod, Colin ^b,c   Watkins, Ed ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

attention; brooding; disengagement bias; engagement bias; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE FUNCTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPAIRED ATTENTIONAL DISENGAGEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); RUMINATIVE BROODING; RUMINATIVE RESPONSE SCALE QUESTIONNAIRE; SADNESS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; AFFECT; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952764643     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1124843     Document Type: Article

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