“…The robust literatures on memory and attentional biases associated with symptomatology offer one potential explanation. Early grief responses are typically characterized by at least some depression, grief, and PTSD symptoms (Zisook et al, 1998;Zisook & Shuchter, 1993); the more severe the grief reaction, the more likely those symptoms will be elevated and will persist. When one considers that depressive and grief states have been widely shown to be associated with memory biases for disorder-related material (e.g., Blaney, 1986;Bower, 1981;Rinck & Becker, 2005;Safer, Bonanno, & Field, 2001) and PTSD symptoms are associated with attentional biases for threatening stimuli (Buckley, Blanchard, & Neill, 2000;Constans, Vasterling, & Brewin, 2005), it would seem likely that these biases could influence more severely grieved persons' views of the world.…”