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USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

2017

Cognition

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Depression And Choice Of Emotional Stimuli, Sunkyung Yoon Oct 2017

Depression And Choice Of Emotional Stimuli, Sunkyung Yoon

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Recent research argued that people with major depressive disorder (MDD) tend to prefer sad stimuli because they want to upregulate their sad feelings. This paper aims to examine investigate the choice of emotional stimuli among those who have MDD, compared to individuals without MDD (healthy controls, HC), and explore the reasons for their choice. Seventy six female university students (38 per group) completed three tasks: 1) In the replication music task, participants listened to happy, neutral, and sad music excerpts, chose the one they wanted to listen most, and reported the reasons of their choice. 2) The Emotional Stimuli Selection …