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The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of verbal and imagery processing during and following stress stimuli on the maintenance of negative affect. A total of 60 undergraduate students were included in the analysis. Participants were asked to use either the verbal or imagery cognitive processing during and after observing an emotion inducing stressful video clip. To explain the mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance of emotional response, the emotional responses of participants were measured immediately after, one day after, and three days after the experiment. For immediately after the experiment, participants in the imagery task reported significantly more arousal than participants in the verbal task, but after one and three days later, these participants showed decreased negative affect. Verbal thoughts were found to lead to the maintenance of negative affect after one and three days following the experiment. Based on these results implications and limitations of the study were discussed.
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