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Training To Inhibit Negative Content Affects Memory And Rumination, Shimrit Daches, Nilly Mor, Paula T. Hertel
Training To Inhibit Negative Content Affects Memory And Rumination, Shimrit Daches, Nilly Mor, Paula T. Hertel
Psychology Faculty Research
Depressive rumination, the tendency to engage in repetitive self-focus in response to distress, seems to be affected by a variety of cognitive biases that in turn maintain negative emotional states. The current study examined whether the difficulty in inhibiting attention to negative information contributes to rumination and to rumination-related biases in memory. Seventy-nine ruminators underwent a 3-week computer-based training, designed to increase either inhibition of negative words or attention to them. On immediate post-training trials, as well as on 2-week follow-up tests, we found evidence for transfer of inhibition training. Training effects also occurred on session-by-session and post-training measures of …
Effect Of Cognitive Bias Modification-Memory On Depressive Symptoms And Autobiographical Memory Bias: Two Independent Studies In High-Ruminating And Dysphoric Samples, Janna N. Vrijsen, J. Dainer-Best, S. M. Witcraft, S. S. Papini, Paula T. Hertel, C. G. Beevers, Eni Sabine Becker, J. A. J. Smits
Effect Of Cognitive Bias Modification-Memory On Depressive Symptoms And Autobiographical Memory Bias: Two Independent Studies In High-Ruminating And Dysphoric Samples, Janna N. Vrijsen, J. Dainer-Best, S. M. Witcraft, S. S. Papini, Paula T. Hertel, C. G. Beevers, Eni Sabine Becker, J. A. J. Smits
Psychology Faculty Research
Memory bias is a risk factor for depression. In two independent studies, the efficacy of one CBM-Memory session on negative memory bias and depressive symptoms was tested in vulnerable samples. We compared positive to neutral (control) CBM-Memory trainings in highly-ruminating individuals (N = 101) and individuals with elevated depressive symptoms (N = 100). In both studies, participants studied positive, neutral, and negative Swahili words paired with their translations. In five study–test blocks, they were then prompted to retrieve either only the positive or neutral translations. Immediately following the training and one week later, we tested cued recall of all translations …