Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset,
maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years …

Abstract Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an affective disorder with sustained negative
affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect as its hallmark features. Previous work also …

Sustained negative affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect are hallmark features of
major depressive disorder. Recent research has suggested that difficulties in emotion …

Cognitive theories of depression posit that people's thoughts, inferences, attitudes, and
interpretations, and the way in which they attend to and recall information, can increase their …

Depression is a disorder of impaired emotion regulation. Consequently, examining
individual differences in the habitual use of emotion-regulation strategies has considerable …

Depressed individuals typically show poor memory for positive events, potentiated memory
for negative events, and impaired recollection. These phenomena are clinically important …

The author reviews research showing that repetitive thought (RT) can have constructive or
unconstructive consequences. The main unconstructive consequences of RT are (a) …

Dysphoric people who ruminate about their negative mood experience longer and more
intense depressive episodes, yet often persist in ruminating. This study investigated whether …

Sustained negative affect and diminished positive affect are hallmark features of Major
Depressive Disorder (MDD). Difficulties in emotion regulation have been proposed to be at …

Drawing from substantial evidence demonstrating cognitive biases in depression at various
stages of information processing (ie, attention, interpretation, memory, cognitive control), we …