title: Self-awareness review Part 1: Do you “self-reflect” or “self-ruminate”? creator: Morin, Alain subject: Cognitive Psychology description: We all spend time analyzing our inner thoughts and feelings; past research looked at this activity as being unitary in nature (i.e., simply focusing on the self), examined how frequently people introspect, and identified the effects of self-focus on behavior. Current studies indicate that people actually engage in two different types of self-analysis: self-reflection (enjoying analyzing the self) and self-rumination (not being able to shut off thoughts about the self), each leading to opposite consequences. date: 2002-12 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/3788/1/Rumination.pdf identifier: Morin, Alain (2002) Self-awareness review Part 1: Do you “self-reflect” or “self-ruminate”? [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/3788/