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The recollection of affect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Geoffrey Schrader ,
Anthony Davis ,
Snezana Stefanovic  and
Paul Christie
Geoffrey Schrader*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
Anthony Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
Snezana Stefanovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
Paul Christie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Geoffrey Schrader, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville South, South Australia 5011, Australia.
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Synopsis

A group of psychiatric in-patients significantly over-estimated the intensity of their depression when asked to recollect how depressed they had been one week earlier. The initial level of depression affected the accuracy of recall. Unexpectedly, patients who were more depressed initially had more accurate recall, particularly for biological and symptomatically negative items of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1990 , pp. 105 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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