Mood Constraint on Self-Appraisal; Toward Brain-Based Assessment of Dysfunctional Thinking

Self-evaluation is mood state dependent. A transient decrease in positive self-evaluation bias may co-occur with sad mood. In clinical depression this decrease is lasting and exaggerated. The act of self-evaluation engages frontal lobe mechanisms of emotion regulation, but it remains unclear how the...

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Main Author: Waters, Allison
Other Authors: Tucker, Don
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19215