Positive mood contributes to mental and physical wellbeing. The broaden-and-build theory
(Fredrickson, 2001) proposed that the beneficial effects of positive mood on life quality result …

Depression and anxiety are often comorbid, in up to 70% of cases, and the level of one or
the other may fluctuate, leading now to a diagnosis of depression, now to a diagnosis of …

Background and objectives Rumination involves fixating on negative content, is associated
with biases in inhibitory control, and typically worsens negative mood. In contrast, distraction …

Emotion is assumed to change how people process information by modulating attentional
focus. Two recent studies (Spachtholz et al., 2014; **e & Zhang, 2016) reported that self …

Recent efforts have been made to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying
psychological resilience. Cognitive flexibility in the context of affective information has been …

Due to the fact that English as a foreign language (EFL) students' academic self-concept is
of high importance for their academic motivation, academic achievement, and L2 success …

The widely accepted two-dimensional circumplex model of emotions posits that most
instances of human emotional experience can be understood within the two general …

Attentional deployment is currently considered as one of the most central mechanisms in
emotion regulation (ER) as it is assumed to be a crucial first step in the selection of …

Introduction Emotion has been shown to influence selective visual attention. However,
studies in this field have revealed contradictory findings regarding the nature of this …

Blunted activation in the reward circuitry has been associated with anhedonia, the inability to
experience pleasure in previously rewarding activities. In healthy individuals, reward-related …