Spontaneous cognition in dysphoria: reduced positive bias in imagining the future.

ABSTRACT: Anomalies in future-oriented cognition are implicated in the maintenance of emotional disturbance within cognitive models of depression. Thinking about the future can involve mental imagery or verbal-linguistic mental representations. Research suggests that future thinking involving imagery representations may disproportionately impact on-going emotional experience in daily life relative to future thinking not involving imagery (verbal-linguistic representation only). However, while higher depression symptoms (dysphoria) are associated with impaired ability to deliberately generate positive relatively to negative imagery representations of the future (when instructed to do so), it is unclear whether dysphoria is associated with impairments in the tendency to do so spontaneously (when not i

SUBMITTER: Ji JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6529377 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature