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Thought suppression is a psychoanalytical ... frequency of target thoughts than did those who hadn't used thought suppression; later coined the rebound effect. ...
Ironic process theory (IPT), also known as the Pink elephant paradox [1] or White bear phenomenon, suggests that when an individual intentionally tries to avoid thinking a certain thought or feeling a certain emotion, a paradoxical effect is produced: the attempted avoidance not only fails in its object but in fact causes the thought or emotion to occur more frequently and more intensely. [2]
Thought suppression has mainly been studied using arbitrary thoughts (such as that of a white bear [9]) making it unrepresentative of real problematic thoughts that involve emotion, which could actually be harder to suppress. Meanwhile, studies on thought stopping have proven it to be effective against problematic cognition, showing a ...
The efficacy of suppression was an interesting find, says Dr. Lewis-Peacock. “The most effective way to stop thinking about something is to engage with it,” he says. “Focusing on the thing ...
Three months after the experiment was over, around 80% of participants said they had continued to use the thought suppression techniques they learned in the study to control their fears. Anderson ...
Laboratory-based thought suppression studies suggest avoidance is paradoxical, in that concerted attempts at suppression of a particular thought often leads to an increase of that thought. [15] Studies examining emotional suppression and pain suppression suggest that avoidance is ineffective in the long-run.
Cognitive inhibition was thought to develop as mental control over behavior developed. [ 3 ] During the past 30 years inhibitory mechanisms such as cognitive inhibition have not been particularly prominent in developmental psychology , but currently they are undergoing a revival in the study of inefficient inhibition (explored in a later ...
By using complex terminology, the focus becomes on the words and finer definitions rather than the human effects. Intellectualization protects against anxiety by repressing the emotions connected with an event. A comparison sometimes made is that between isolation (also known as isolation of affect) and intellectualization. The former is a ...