Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2022
Abstract
Making negative inferences for negative events, ruminating about them, and retrieving negative aspects of memories have all been associated with depression. However, the causal mechanisms that link negative inferences to negative mood and the interplay between inferences, rumination, and memory have not been explored. In the current study, we used a cognitive-bias modification (CBM) procedure to train causal inferences and assessed training effects on ruminative thinking, memory, and negative mood among people with varying levels of depression. Training had immediate effects on negative mood and rumination but not after recall of a negative autobiographical memory. Note that training affected memory: Participants falsely recalled inferences presented during the training in a training-congruent manner. Moreover, among participants with high levels of depression, training also affected causal inferences they made for an autobiographical memory retrieved after training. Our findings shed light on negative cognitive cycles that may contribute to depression.
Identifier
85106633098 (Scopus)
DOI
10.1177/21677026211009886
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc.
ISSN
21677026
Repository Citation
Perlman, B., Mor, N., Wisney Jacobinski, Y., Doron Zakon, A., Avirbach, N., & Hertel, P. (2022). Inferences training affects memory, rumination, and mood. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(1), 161-174. http://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211009886
Publication Information
Clinical Psychological Science
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