2001
DOI: 10.1080/028457101753363348
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Fifteen Years of Suppression of White Bears and Other Thoughts: What are the Lessons for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Research and Treatment?

Abstract: There has been a good deal of research on thought suppression in clinical and social psychology during the past 15 years. Thought suppression refers to attempts to keep certain thoughts out of consciousness. While the idea promises to shed light on various psychopathologica l processes, research has in many ways been inconclusive. The main focus of this review is on the relevance of thought suppression for our understanding of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Drawing on the literature the review attempts to poin… Show more

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“…This variability leads to difficulties when attempting to draw comparisons between findings. Further, Smari (2001) highlights that even if obsessive intrusive thoughts are examined, there are problems regarding whether they are defined according to their contents or their appraisals. It seems that in order to overcome these issues research must attempt to reflect both the cognitive content and processes underlying obsessions in OCD.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This variability leads to difficulties when attempting to draw comparisons between findings. Further, Smari (2001) highlights that even if obsessive intrusive thoughts are examined, there are problems regarding whether they are defined according to their contents or their appraisals. It seems that in order to overcome these issues research must attempt to reflect both the cognitive content and processes underlying obsessions in OCD.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in particular has been speculatively linked to the appearance of earworms (Levitin, 2008; Williamson & Müllensiefen, 2012). The theory of ironic mental control is clearly relevant both to the appearance of earworms and to thought regulation in pathological conditions such as OCD (e.g., Janeck & Calamari, 1999; Smári, 2001; Tolin, 2002a, 2002b; see also Purdon, 2004; Purdon & Clark, 2000 for critiques). According to the theory, attempts to regulate contents of conscious thought are counterproductive because in order to determine whether the unwanted thought has been successfully expunged it needs to be reinstated (Wegner, 1994).…”
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“…Fifth, the paradigm is also advantageous in that both stimulus parameters (e.g., word frequency, number of letters, word valence) and instruction (or “action set”) parameters can be varied experimentally. Sixth, the RIT is also beneficial to the field in that it builds nicely on the literature: It builds incrementally on previous research (e.g., Wegner et al, 1987 ; Gaskell et al, 2001 ; Smári, 2001 ), and its effects are predicted by several frameworks (e.g., Miller, 1959 ; Wegner, 1989 ; Gollwitzer, 1999 ; Morsella, 2005 ). This is the kind of incremental research, involving a robust, multifaceted, and reliable phenomenon that has been investigated for years, that is important for progress in the fields of psychological science and neuroscience (Nosek et al, 2012 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 89%