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ReviewClinical psychology review2019

Depression: A cognitive perspective.

Joelle LeMoult, Ian H Gotlib

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Review in Clinical psychology review, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 290 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
290citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
35.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

290 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 736 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effectiveness of unguided web-based interventions for the treatment of depressive symptoms in improving the quality of life: a meta-analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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  20. Acute effects of ATNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joelle LeMoultUniversity of British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: jlemoult@psych.ubc.ca.
Ian H GotlibStanford University, United States.
Stanford University · USUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Association Between Early Life Stress and Depression Across AdolescenceR37MH101495 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI IAN H GOTLIB · 2018 to 2026
$6.6M
The Effects of Early Life Stress on Neurodevelopment in Children and AdolescentsR01MH101495 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOTLIB, IAN H · 2013 to 2016
$2.9M
The Role of Caregiver Social Processes on Neural and Endocrine Function in InfantsR21MH111978 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOTLIB, IAN H · 2017 to 2018
$432k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101495NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH111978NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH101495
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset, maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years supports the proposition that depression and risk for depression are characterized by the operation of negative biases, and often by a lack of positive biases, in self-referential processing, interpretation, attention, and memory, as well as the use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. There is also evidence to suggest that deficits in cognitive control over mood-congruent material underlie these cognitive processes. Specifically, research indicates that difficulty inhibiting and disengaging from negative material in working memory: (1) increases the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., rumination), decreases the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal), and potentially impedes flexible selection and implementation of emotion regulation strategies; (2) is associated with negative biases in attention; and (3) contributes to negative biases in long-term memory. Moreover, studies suggest that these cognitive processes exacerbate and sustain the negative mood that typifies depressive episodes. In this review, we present evidence in support of this conceptualization of depression and discuss implications of research findings for theory and practice. Finally, we advance directions for future research.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PsychologicalCognitive DysfunctionDepressive DisorderEmotional RegulationExecutive FunctionHumansCognitionCognitive controlDepressionEmotion regulation strategiesInformation-processing biases

Identifiers

PMID29961601
PMCPMC11884012
OpenAlexW2809106305

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