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The relation between rumination and temporal features of emotion intensity

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 259-274 Abstract “Intensity profiles of emotional experience over time have been found to differ primarily in explosiveness (i.e. whether the profile has a steep vs. a gentle start) and accumulation (i.e. whether intensity increases over time vs. goes back to baseline). However, the determinants of these temporal features […]

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Situation selection is a particularly effective emotion regulation strategy for people who need help regulating their emotions

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 231-248 Abstract “Situation selection involves choosing situations based on their likely emotional impact and may be less cognitively taxing or challenging to implement compared to other strategies for regulating emotion, which require people to regulate their emotions “in the moment”; we thus predicted that individuals who chronically

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Evidence for a relationship between trait gratitude and prosocial behaviour

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 397-403 Abstract “Prosocial behaviour towards unrelated others is communally beneficial but can be individually costly. The emotion of gratitude mitigates this cost by encouraging direct as well as “upstream” reciprocity, thereby facilitating cooperation. A widely used method for measuring trait gratitude is the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ6) [McCullough,

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The tell-tale heart: physiological reactivity during resolution of ambiguity in youth anxiety

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 389-396 Abstract “In the past decade, cognitive biases and physiological arousal have each been proposed as mechanisms through which paediatric anxiety develops and is maintained over time. Preliminary studies have found associations between anxious interpretations of ambiguity, physiological arousal, and avoidance, supporting theories that link cognition, psychophysiology,

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Effects of achievement contexts on the meaning structure of emotion words

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 379-388 Abstract “Little is known about the impact of context on the meaning of emotion words. In the present study, we used a semantic profiling instrument (GRID) to investigate features representing five emotion components (appraisal, bodily reaction, expression, action tendencies, and feeling) of 11 emotion words in

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Cognitive reactivity as outcome and working mechanism of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurrently depressed patients in remission

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 371-378 Abstract “Major depressive disorder is a prevalent condition with high relapse rates. There is evidence that cognitive reactivity is an important vulnerability factor for the recurrence of depression. Mindfulness-based interventions are designed to reduce relapse rates, with cognitive reactivity as one of the proposed working mechanisms.

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Networks of self-defining memories as a contributing factor to emotional openness

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Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 363-370 Abstract “Emotional openness is characterised by a capacity to tolerate threatening self-relevant material and an interest towards new emotional situations. We investigated how specific networks of memories could be an important contributing factor to emotional openness. At Phase 1, participants completed measures of personality traits and

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