ReviewEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2020
If only… a systematic review and meta-analysis of social, temporal and counterfactual comparative thinking in PTSD.
Review in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Haunted by vivid 'what if' thoughts: how counterfactual thinking is associated with posttraumatic stress reactions over time.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Effects of congruent and incongruent appetitive and aversive well-being comparisons on depression, post-traumatic stress, and self-esteem.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- An exploratory study of emotional forecasting and experience disparities in PTSD: insights from a virtual reality paradigm.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Comparison standards shape everyday judgments of low and high wellbeing in individuals with and without psychopathology: a diary-based investigation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- 'My child could have died': counterfactual thoughts and psychological distress in parents of trauma survivors.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Individual differences in the frequency of voluntary & involuntary episodic memories, future thoughts, and counterfactual thoughts.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
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- How am I doing compared to different standards? Comparative thinking and well-being following exposure to a vehicle-ramming attack.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2020Article
- Comparing comparisons: A transdiagnostic investigation of social and temporal comparisons and their differential effects on mental health outcomes and well-being.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Comparative thinking is ubiquitous in human cognition. Empirical evidence is accumulating that PTSD symptomatology is linked to various changes in social, temporal and counterfactual comparative thinking. However, no systematic review and meta-analysis in this line of research have been conducted to this date. We searched titles, abstracts and subject terms of electronic records in PsycInfo and Medline from inception to January 2019 with various search terms for social, temporal and counterfactual comparative thinking as well as PTSD. Journal articles were included if they reported a quantitative association between PTSD and social, temporal and/or counterfactual comparative thinking in trauma-exposed clinical or sub-clinical samples. A total of 36 publications were included in the qualitative synthesis. The number of publications on the association between PTSD and social and temporal comparative thinking was too scarce to warrant a meta-analytic review. A narrative review of available literature suggests that PTSD is associated with distortions in social and temporal comparative thinking. A meta-analysis of 24 independent samples (
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