Ruminative thoughts

Wyer, R. E. (Ed.) (1996). Ruminative thoughts. Advances in Social Cognition Volume IX. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Preview here.

Chapters:

1. Some ruminative thoughts (Abraham & Tesser)

2. Goal engagement and the ruminative experience (Carver)

3. Restructuring and realigning mental models: Ruminations as guides to cognitive home repair (Clark)

4. Ruminations on the rebound (Erber & Wegner)

5. Some thoughts about thinking (Gohm, Isbell, & Wyer)

6. Thinking about goals, glue and the meaning of life (King & Pennebaker)

7. Theories of thought flow : Points of kinship and fertile contrasts (Klinger)

8. Attention inhibition: Does it underlie ruminative thought? (Linville)

9. Chewing the cud and other ruminations (Nolen-Hoeksema)

10. Recurrent thought: Implications forattitudes and persuasion (Petty, Jarvis, & Evans)

11. When do unconscious goals cloud our minds? (Uleman)

12. Rumination: When all else fails (Waenke & Schmid)

13. Clarifying our thoughts (Martin & Tesser)

Chewing the cud and other ruminations

While rumination is often seen as goal-orientated and instrumental, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema discusses rumination as a maladaptive process, differentiating it from the problem-solving process proposed by others such as Martin and Tesser.

Key elements include:

Rumination versus problem-solving
Rumination and mood
Rumination and current theories

Martin, L. L., & Tesser, A. (1996). Some ruminative thoughts. In R. S. Wyer (Ed.) Advances in social cognition (Vol. IX) (pp. 3-47). USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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