Glossary R
Glossary R
Rumination refers to a preoccupation with distressful thoughts or worries; focusing on one's personal concerns and feelings of distress repetitively and passively.
- Rumination disorder : Rumination disorder refers to an eating disorder in which the infant or child regurgitates food after it has been swallowed and then either spits it out or reswallows it.
- Ruminative response styles theory : Ruminative response styles theory is a theory stating that tendencies to focus on one's symptoms of distress and the possible causes and consequences of these symptoms, in a passive and repetitive manner, leads to depression.
Rumor refers to poorly substantiated information that is passed along the grapevine.
Run of luck refers to a statistically unusual outcome, like getting five heads in a row when flipping a coin that could still occur by chance alone.
Running head refers to the heading that appears at the top of the page of a published article.
Running head also refers to the abbreviated title of a research report containing a maximum of 50 characters that appears on the title page of the manuscript and at the top of the pages in a published article.