Unnoticed intrusions: Dissociations of meta-consciousness in thought suppression |
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Authors: | Benjamin Baird Jonathan Smallwood Daniel JF Fishman Michael D Mrazek Jonathan W Schooler |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of York, United Kingdom;3. Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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Abstract: | The current research investigates the interaction between thought suppression and individuals’ explicit awareness of their thoughts. Participants in three experiments attempted to suppress thoughts of a prior romantic relationship and their success at doing so was measured using a combination of self-catching and experience-sampling. In addition to thoughts that individuals spontaneously noticed, individuals were frequently caught engaging in thoughts of their previous partner at experience-sampling probes. Furthermore, probe-caught thoughts were: (i) associated with stronger decoupling of attention from the environment, (ii) more likely to occur under cognitive load, (iii) more frequent for individuals with a desire to reconcile, and (iv) associated with individual differences in the tendency to suppress thoughts. Together, these data suggest that individuals can lack meta-awareness that they have begun to think about a topic they are attempting to suppress, providing novel insight into the cognitive processes that are involved in attempting to control undesired mental states. |
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Keywords: | Thought suppression Mind-wandering Meta-awareness Monitoring Consciousness Experience sampling |
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