A test of the functional avoidance hypothesis in the development of overgeneral autobiographical memory.
Overgeneral memory (OGM) refers to the failure to recall memories of specific personally experienced events, which occurs in various psychiatric disorders. One pathway through which OGM is theorized to develop is the avoidance of thinking of negative experiences, whereby cumulative avoidance may mal...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 895 - 909 |
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