PSYC390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unintended Consequences, Repeated Measures Design, Limbic System
12 Mar 2018
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Deliberate attempts to suppress certain thoughts make them more likely to surface. The unintended consequence is it makes things worse (thoughts become stronger) rebound effect. The participants were divided into two groups: supp(cid:396)ession: don"t think about white bea(cid:396)s, expression: think about white bears. The two groups were told to ring a bell if they thought of white bears. Group told to suppress then express had thought of white bears more than those told to express then suppress the thought. Consciously suppressing a thought leads to preoccupation with thought: suppressing negative self-thoughts; for example, borton et al. , (2005) study. Participants who suppressed negative self-thoughts, experienced lower self-esteem and more depressed mood. Expression: for example, pennebake(cid:396)"s ea(cid:396)th(cid:395)uake/wa(cid:396) study. He interviewed people about the san francisco earthquake or the gulf. He repeated measures of how much people. Increased thought and decreased talking of the event. An increase in dream is when people stopped talking about it. Decreased thought and talking of the event.
