Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: an experimental approach.
This study investigated J. M. G. Williams's (1996) affect-regulation hypothesis that level of specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) is used to minimize negative affect. It was found that a negative event leads to more reports of subjective stress in high- as compared with low-specific par...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2003
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