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College students with unresolved traumatic experiences were given a br
ief course of cognitive therapy or asked to talk into a tape recorder.
Both procedures were equally effective in reducing negative mood and
negative thoughts, although cognitive therapy was somewhat more effect
ive on one outcome measure. The arousal of negative affect was inverse
ly related to positive outcome. The reduction of negative affect and,
particularly, negative thoughts was positively related to outcome. In
spite of similarities in outcome, the two procedures seemed to operate
by somewhat different processes.