Trauma-related versus positive involuntary thoughts with and without meta-awareness |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Flinders University, School of Psychology, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, 5001 SA, Australia;2. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Department of Psychology, 445 West 59th St, New York, NY 10019, USA;3. University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2, Canada;1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia;2. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA;1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA;1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;2. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Dept d''Etudes Cognitives, ENS, PSL University, EHESS, CNRS, Paris, France;3. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;1. Maastricht University, Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht, the Netherlands;2. Utrecht University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht, the Netherlands;3. Altrecht Health Care Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In earlier work, we asked subjects to report involuntary thoughts relating to a trauma film and also probed subjects periodically. Subjects often reported involuntary thoughts in response to probes, suggesting they lacked meta-awareness of those thoughts. But it is possible that some or all probe-detected thoughts were continuations of thoughts subjects had spontaneously reported, leading us to overestimate involuntary thoughts lacking meta-awareness. It is also unclear whether failures in meta-awareness occur for other emotional events. We exposed subjects to a negative or positive film. Subsequently, they reported involuntary film-related thoughts and responded to probes that distinguished new from continuing thoughts. Many (54%) but not all probe-caught thoughts were thought continuations. This result supports our earlier finding that people can lack meta-awareness for trauma-related thoughts, but suggests caution in how meta-awareness is assessed. We also found that self-caught negative and positive involuntary thoughts occurred at a similar frequency, with different characteristics. |
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| Keywords: | Emotion Intrusions Mind-wandering Meta-awareness |
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