PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Symbolic Racism, Thought Suppression
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How to people control their own mind thoughts wegner. Actively trying to not think about something it"s extremely difficult, so you think about it more than not thinking it about at all. Great way to deal with stereotypes is by suppressing them, is not a good idea. Need a goal don"t want to think about something. Motor of control some way to stop thinking about it (erase from mind) Operating process takes a lot of energy. Suppression works short term, but not long term. Suppressing stereotypes worked in the short term, but when relaxed, they come back up again. Thing they were trying to suppress was hyperaccessible. Asked people to suppress stereotypes of skinheads: many of us don"t like them so may be easy, given picture of someone who looks like a skin head and write about him. Others told to write a story freely.
