Watkins Ed, Moberly Nicholas J, Moulds Michelle L
Mood Disorders Centre, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UK.
Emotion. 2008 Jun;8(3):364-78. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.364.
Three studies are reported showing that emotional responses to stress can be modified by systematic prior practice in adopting particular processing modes. Participants were induced to think about positive and negative scenarios in a mode either characteristic of or inconsistent with the abstract-evaluative mind-set observed in depressive rumination, via explicit instructions (Experiments 1 and 2) and via implicit induction of interpretative biases (Experiment 3), before being exposed to a failure experience. In all three studies, participants trained into the mode antithetical to depressive rumination demonstrated less emotional reactivity following failure than participants trained into the mode consistent with depressive rumination. These findings provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that processing mode modifies emotional reactivity and support the processing-mode theory of rumination.
报告了三项研究，表明通过采用特定加工模式的系统性预先练习，可以改变对压力的情绪反应。在参与者经历失败体验之前，通过明确指示（实验1和2）以及通过解释性偏差的隐性诱导（实验3），诱导他们以一种与抑郁沉思中观察到的抽象评价思维模式特征相符或不一致的模式来思考积极和消极情景。在所有三项研究中，接受与抑郁沉思相反模式训练的参与者在失败后表现出的情绪反应比接受与抑郁沉思一致模式训练的参与者更少。这些发现提供了与加工模式改变情绪反应这一假设相一致的证据，并支持了沉思的加工模式理论。
