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We asked how reasoning as manifested in oral autobiographical narratives might differ when it is ruminative versus when it is adaptive by comparing two constructs from the fields of psychotherapy research and narrative research that are potentially beneficial: innovative moments (IMs) and autobiographical reasoning (AR). IMs captures statements in that elaborate on changes regarding an earlier personal previous problem of the narrator, and AR capture the connecting of past events with other parts of the narrator\u2019s life or enduring aspects of the narrator. A total of<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 94 university students had been selected from 492 students to differ maximally on trait rumination and trait adaptive reflection, and were grouped as ruminators (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 38), reflectors (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 37), and a group with little ruminative and reflective tendencies (\u201cunconcerned,\u201d<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 19). 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