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REDUCTION IN MEMORY SPECIFICITY FOLLOWING AN APPROACH/AVOIDANCE SCRAMBLED SENTENCES TASK RELATES TO COGNITIVE AVOIDANT COPING
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Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) refers to the tendency to retrieve less specific personal memories. According to the functional avoidance hypothesis, OGM might act as a cognitive strategy to avoid emotionally distressing details of negative memories. In the present study, we investigated the effect of an experimentally induced avoidant state on memory specificity. We primed an avoidant state in half of the participants and an approaching state in the other half by means of a Scrambl...
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- Journal:
- PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 73-84
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
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- ISSN:
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0033-2933
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- English
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pubs:388796
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- pubs:388796
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388796
- Deposit date:
- 2013-12-12
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- 2013
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