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 …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

The present article reviews modern research on the psychology of emotion regulation.
Emotion regulation determines the offset of emotional responding and is thus distinct from …

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 …

Psychological research increasingly indicates that emotional processes interact with other
aspects of cognition. Studies have demonstrated both the ability of emotional stimuli to …

Two studies sought to elucidate the components of emotion and its dysregulation and
examine their role in both the overlap and distinctness of the symptoms of 3 highly comorbid …

This study was designed to assess the effects of irrelevant emotional material on the ability
to update the contents of working memory in depression. For each trial, participants were …

In this article I propose that cognitive inhibition is a key mechanism in the regulation of
emotion and that deficits in inhibition of negative material are related to increased risk for …