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 …

Although participants with psychiatric symptoms, specific risk factors, or rare demographic
characteristics can be difficult to identify and recruit for participation in research, participants …

Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

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 …

Attentional control theory is an approach to anxiety and cognition representing a major
development of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) processing efficiency theory. It is assumed that …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Cognitive abnormalities are a core feature of depression, and biases toward negatively
toned emotional information are common, but are they a cause or a consequence of …

We propose a framework to understand increases in vulnerability for depression after
recurrent episodes that links attention processes and schema activation to negative mood …