2023
“Don't [ruminate], be happy”: A cognitive perspective linking depression and anhedonia
Rutherford A, McDougle S, Joormann J. “Don't [ruminate], be happy”: A cognitive perspective linking depression and anhedonia. Clinical Psychology Review 2023, 101: 102255. PMID: 36871425, DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2023.102255.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive affectNegative affectSustained negative affectCognitive constructsCognitive theoryCognitive perspectiveLack of pleasureCognitive deficitsSpecific thoughtsIntervention effortsDifferent theoretical lensesAffectRuminationAnhedoniaDeficitsExtant literatureMemoryDepressionHallmark featureComputational modelingTheoretical lensesEnvironmental cuesLess focusDebilitating disorderCuesNegative information processing.
Deng W, Joormann J. Negative information processing. 2023, 233-252. DOI: 10.1037/0000332-011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCognitive biasesPositive affectNegative affectNegative information processingSustained negative affectCognitive behavior therapyDevelopment of interventionsEmotion regulationCognitive processesEmotional experienceBehavior therapyCognitive deficitsInformation processingCognitionAffectAffective symptomsClinical depressionEmotionsBiasesDepressionArea of researchClinical disordersDeficitsDisordersIntervention
2022
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications
Deng W, Everaert J, Creighton M, Bronstein M, Cannon T, Joormann J. Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications. Personality And Individual Differences 2022, 190: 111548. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111548.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInterpretation biasHigh-level cognitive deficitsPicture-based tasksStrong convergent validitySocial anxietySymptoms of depressionTransdiagnostic factorVerbal stimuliVerbal measuresNegative interpretationsStimulus modalityPersecutory ideationCognitive deficitsReliable paradigmGeneral population sampleConvergent validityDevelopmental studiesInflexibilityTaskPsychotic symptomsAffective disordersClinical implicationsNovel assessmentBiasPopulation sample