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SUBMITTER: Lebois LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631025 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lebois Lauren A M LA Papies Esther K EK Gopinath Kaundinya K Cabanban Romeo R Quigley Karen S KS Krishnamurthy Venkatagiri V Barrett Lisa Feldman LF Barsalou Lawrence W LW
Neuropsychologia 20150622
Ruminative thoughts about a stressful event can seem subjectively real, as if the imagined event were happening in the moment. One possibility is that this subjective realism results from simulating the self as engaged in the stressful event (immersion). If so, then the process of decentering--disengaging the self from the event--should reduce the subjective realism associated with immersion, and therefore perceived stressfulness. To assess this account of decentering, we taught non-meditators a ...[more]