@article{rubin_boals_klein_2010, title={Autobiographical Memories for Very Negative Events: The Effects of Thinking About and Rating Memories}, volume={34}, ISSN={["0147-5916"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10608-008-9226-6}, abstractNote={In three related experiments, 250 participants rated properties of their autobiographical memory of a very negative event before and after writing about either their deepest thoughts and emotions of the event or a control topic. Levels of emotional intensity of the event, distress associated with the event, intrusive symptoms, and other phenomenological memory properties decreased over the course of the experiment, but did not differ by writing condition. We argue that the act of answering our extensive questions about a very negative event led to the decrease, thereby masking the effects of expressive writing. To show that the changes could not be explained by the mere passage of time, we replicated our findings in a fourth experiment in which all 208 participants nominated a very negative event, but only half the participants rated properties of their memory in the first session. Implications for reducing the effects of negative autobiographical memories are discussed.}, number={1}, journal={COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH}, author={Rubin, David C. and Boals, Adriel and Klein, Kitty}, year={2010}, month={Feb}, pages={35–48} }
 @article{boals_rubin_klein_2008, title={Memory and coping with stress: The relationship between cognitive-emotional distinctiveness, memory valence, and distress}, volume={16}, number={6}, journal={Memory (Hove, England)}, author={Boals, A. and Rubin, D. C. and Klein, K.}, year={2008}, pages={637–657} }
 @article{boals_klein_2005, title={Cognitive-emotional distinctiveness: Separating emotions from non-emotions in the representation of a stressful memory}, volume={13}, ISSN={["1464-0686"]}, DOI={10.1080/09658210444000287}, abstractNote={Current theories on autobiographical memory and recent neurological evidence suggest that emotional and non-emotional features of a memory may be retrieved by separate systems. To test this notion, 207 participants who had experienced the break-up of a significant romantic relationship in the last 12 months completed a Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) procedure in relation to the previous relationship. The resulting MDS model revealed two dimensions: a valence and an emotional/non-emotional dimension. Further, participants who associated a high level of distress with their relationship break-up perceived less dissimilarity between emotional and non-emotional features than participants who associated a low level of distress with their relationship break-up. Theoretical and methodological implications for stress and memory are discussed.}, number={6}, journal={MEMORY}, author={Boals, A and Klein, K}, year={2005}, month={Aug}, pages={638–648} }
 @article{klein_boals_2001, title={Expressive writing can increase working memory capacity}, volume={130}, ISSN={["0096-3445"]}, DOI={10.1037//0096-3445.130.3.520}, abstractNote={The effect of emotional disclosure through expressive writing on available working memory (WM) capacity was examined in 2 semester-long experiments. In the first study, 35 freshmen assigned to write about their thoughts and feelings about coming to college demonstrated larger working memory gains 7 weeks later compared with 36 writers assigned to a trivial topic. Increased use of cause and insight words was associated with greater WM improvements. In the second study, students (n = 34) who wrote about a negative personal experience enjoyed greater WM improvements and declines in intrusive thinking compared with students who wrote about a positive experience (n = 33) or a trivial topic (n = 34). The results are discussed in terms of a model grounded in cognitive and social psychological theory in which expressive writing reduces intrusive and avoidant thinking about a stressful experience, thus freeing WM resources.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL}, author={Klein, K and Boals, A}, year={2001}, month={Sep}, pages={520–533} }
 @article{klein_boals_2001, title={The relationship of life event stress and working memory capacity}, volume={15}, ISSN={["0888-4080"]}, DOI={10.1002/acp.727}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={5}, journal={APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY}, author={Klein, K and Boals, A}, year={2001}, month={Sep}, pages={565–579} }