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Direct linkRobinson, Michael D.; Wilkowski, Benjamin M.; Kirkeby, Ben S.; Meier, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Clinical views of neuroticism-linked distress often make reference to the perseverative sorts of mental processes that reinforce such experiences. The goal of the present 7 studies, involving 488 undergraduate participants, was to directly examine such perseverative processes. Individual differences in response perseveration were operationalized…
Descriptors: Validity, Individual Differences, Reaction Time, Responses
Lang, Janet M. – 1980
Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) is predicated on a theory of causality. According to Ellis (1962), beliefs regarding an event, and not the event itself, cause emotional reactions. Mentally healthy persons practice this reational theory of causality. Neurotic persons accept an irrational theory of causality based on coincidental or correlational…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Change Strategies, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
