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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Overgeneral memory (OGM) is linked to depression vulnerability.
  • Rumination is a proposed mechanism underlying OGM.
  • The relationship between rumination and OGM in nonclinical groups is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between rumination and OGM in a nonclinical student sample.
  • To explore the impact of induced thinking styles on OGM.
  • To utilize a novel sentence completion method for OGM assessment.

Main Methods:

  • An experimental design was employed with a nonclinical student sample.
  • Participants were induced into either a concrete, process-focused (non-ruminative) or abstract, evaluative (ruminative) thinking style.
  • Overgeneral memory (OGM) was assessed using a sentence completion procedure.

Main Results:

  • Inducing a concrete, process-focused thinking style resulted in significantly fewer OGMs.
  • Inducing an abstract, evaluative (ruminative) thinking style led to more OGMs.
  • The findings were consistent with the hypothesis that rumination influences OGM.

Conclusions:

  • Abstract, evaluative (ruminative) thinking is a critical underlying process of OGM.
  • This relationship extends to nonclinical individuals.
  • A novel sentence completion procedure effectively assesses OGM.