Publications of Adriel Boals    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds42339,
   Author = {A. Boals and K. Klein},
   Title = {Word Use in Emotional Narratives about Failed Romantic
             Relationships and Subsequent Mental Health},
   Journal = {Journal of Language and Social Psychology},
   Volume = {24},
   Pages = {252-268},
   Year = {2005},
   Abstract = {We investigated how word use in a stressful narrative is
             related to levels of grief and intrusive and avoidant
             thinking associated with the stressful event. Two hundred
             and eight college students who had experienced the breakup
             of a romantic relationship during the preceding twelve
             months produced a written narrative of the relationship and
             subsequent breakup using an expressive writing procedure.
             Participants used more negative emotion, cause, sensory, and
             first person singular words when describing the breakup in
             comparison to describing the period when they were still
             dating. In addition, greater avoidance of the breakup
             predicted greater use of negative emotion, first person
             singular and third person pronouns, and less use of
             cognitive words. Conversely, levels of grief predicted less
             use of causal words and greater use of first person singular
             pronouns. We argue that use of cognitive words reflect an
             active search for meaning and understanding of the stressful
             event.},
   Key = {fds42339}
}

@article{fds42338,
   Author = {A. Boals and K. Klein},
   Title = {Cognitive-emotional distinctiveness: Separating emotions
             from non-emotions in the representation of a stressful
             memory},
   Journal = {Memory},
   Volume = {13},
   Pages = {638-648},
   Year = {2005},
   Abstract = {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 breakup 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 breakup perceived less
             dissimilarity between emotional and non-emotional features
             than participants who associated a low level of distress
             with their relationship breakup. Theoretical and
             methodological implications for stress and memory are
             discussed.},
   Key = {fds42338}
}

@article{fds42340,
   Author = {K. Klein and A. Boals},
   Title = {Expressive writing can increase working memory
             capacity.},
   Journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: General},
   Volume = {130},
   Pages = {520-533},
   Year = {2001},
   Abstract = {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.},
   Key = {fds42340}
}

@article{fds42341,
   Author = {K. Klein and A. Boals},
   Title = {The relationship of life stress and working
             memory.},
   Journal = {Applied Cognitive Psychology},
   Volume = {15},
   Pages = {565-579},
   Year = {2001},
   Abstract = {The relationship between life stress and working memory
             capacity (WM) was examined in three studies. Participants
             with more life event stress performed more poorly on Turner
             and Engle's ([1989]) operation-word span WM task, and this
             impairment was more pronounced on longer operations. Life
             event stress also predicted intrusion errors. Finally,
             self-reports of intrusive and avoidant thinking predicted
             functional WM capacity as did the recency of negative life
             events. The results are interpreted using a limited capacity
             model of WM in which cognitive representations of stressful
             life events compete with task demands for attentional
             resources.},
   Key = {fds42341}
}