Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
Abstract
College students in dysphoric or nondysphoric moods studied pairs of words and later took a fragment-completion test of memory for targets from the pairs (under process-dissociation procedures for obtaining estimates of controlled and automatic retrieval; L. L. Jacoby, 1996). Between the study and test phases, some participants waited quietly for 7 min; others rated self-focused materials designed to invoke ruminations in the dysphoric group; and still others rated self-irrelevant and task-irrelevant materials. A dysphoria-related impairment in controlled retrieval occurred in the first 2 conditions but not in the 3rd condition. These results show that the nature of task-irrelevant thoughts contributes to memory impairments in dysphoria and suggest that self-focused rumination might also contribute to similar impairments under unconstrained conditions that permit mind wandering.
Identifier
10.1037/0021-843X.107.1.166
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Repository Citation
Hertel, P.T. (1998). Relation between rumination and impaired memory in dysphoric moods. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(1), 166-172. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.107.1.166
Publication Information
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
