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Perseverative cognition

Perseverative cognition is a collective term from scientific psychology for continuous ('perseverative') thinking ('cognition') about negative events in the past or in the future. Perseverative cognition includes phenomena such as worry, rumination, brooding etc.. It is likely that a part of perseverative cognition is unconscious.

Sources:

Brosschot, J.F, Gerin, W. & Thayer, J.F. (2006) Worry and health: the perseverative cognition hypothesis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60, 113-12;

Brosschot, J.F., Pieper, S. & Thayer J.F. (2005) Expanding Stress Theory: Prolonged Activation And Perseverative Cognition. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30(10):1043-9;

Brosschot, J.F., & Thayer, J.F. (2004). Worry, perseverative thinking and health. In I. Nyklicek, L.R., Temoshok, & A.J.J.M. Vingerhoets (Eds.), Emotional expression and health: Advances in theory, assessment and clinical applications (pp. 99-114). London: Brunner-Rutledge. ISBM 1583918434, 368 pages;

Thayer, J.F. & Brosschot, J.F. (2000) Delayed cardiovascular recovery: perseverative thinking and vagal inhibition. Psychophysiology, 37, S13.

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