I Suppress, Therefore I Smoke

Erskine, James; Georgiou, George; Kvavilashvili, Lia

doi:10.1177/0956797610378687

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“…It is this process of unconscious monitoring that is said to increase the accessibility of the suppressed thoughts (Wegner & Erber, 1992). Importantly, a similar process termed behavioral rebound (Baumeister, Heatherton, & Tice, 1994) provides evidence that unwanted behaviors increase when individuals suppress thoughts about enacting the behaviors (e.g., Denzler, Förster, Liberman, & Rozenman, 2010; Erskine, Georgiou, & Kvavilashvili, 2010). …”

Section: Thought Suppression As the Hostmentioning

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Effects of thought suppression on provoked men’s alcohol-related physical aggression in the laboratory.

Gallagher

Lisco

Parrott

et al. 2014

Psychology of Violence

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Objective This study utilized a comprehensive theoretical approach to provide the first data on the impact of thought suppression on provoked men’s alcohol-related aggression. Method A diverse community sample (58% African-American) of males between the ages of 21 and 35 (M = 25.25) were randomly assigned to one of two beverage conditions (i.e., alcohol, no-alcohol control). Following beverage consumption, participants were provoked via reception of electric shocks and a verbal insult from a fictitious male opponent. Participants’ physical aggression was measured using a shock-based aggression task. Results Results indicated that acute alcohol intoxication significantly increased physical aggression among lower, but not higher, thought suppressing men. Conclusions Results suggest that, under conditions of interpersonal provocation, alcohol intoxication produces a myopic focus on hostile thoughts and angry affect in lower, but not higher, suppression men. This pattern of results provides support for the durability of the alcohol myopia effect and highlights the need for continued examination of alcohol’s role in the disruption of protective factors for men’s aggression. It is important for research to continue to identify modifiable cognitive variables that influence self-regulation of behavior; however, it is imperative that researchers consider the extent to which these variables withstand alcohol’s effects.

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Section: Thought Suppression As the Hostmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of thought suppression on provoked men’s alcohol-related physical aggression in the laboratory.

Gallagher

Lisco

Parrott

et al. 2014

Psychology of Violence

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“…Suppressed thoughts can elicit stronger emotions and cravings than the same thoughts if deliberately evoked Wegner, Shortt, Blake, & Page, 1990). Smokers who attempted to suppress thoughts of smoking for 1 week smoked more in a subsequent week than did smokers told to deliberately think about smoking the previous week and smokers given no instructions (Erskine, Georgiou, & Kvavilashvili, 2010). So potent is the tendency to attribute meaning to intrusive thoughts that chronic failure to dismiss them as meaningless has been linked to obsessive-compulsive and self-injurious behaviors (Magee & Teachman, 2007;Najmi, Wegner, & Nock, 2007).…”

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The (perceived) meaning of spontaneous thoughts.

Morewedge

Giblin

Norton³

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as meaningless. We suggest that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the processes by which they arise that leads people to perceive spontaneous thoughts as revealing meaningful self-insight. Consequently, spontaneous thoughts potently influence judgment. A series of experiments provides evidence supporting two hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that the more a thought is perceived to be spontaneous, the more it is perceived to provide meaningful self-insight. Participants perceived more spontaneous kinds of thought (e.g., intuition) to reveal greater self-insight than did more controlled kinds of thought in Study 1 (e.g., deliberation). In Studies 2 and 3, participants perceived thoughts with the same content and target to reveal greater self-insight when spontaneously rather than deliberately generated (i.e., childhood memories and impressions formed). Second, we hypothesize that the greater self-insight attributed to thoughts that are (perceived to be) spontaneous leads those thoughts to more potently influence judgment. Participants felt more sexually attracted to an attractive person whom they thought of spontaneously than deliberately in Study 4, and reported their commitment to a current romantic relationship would be more affected by the spontaneous rather than deliberate recollection of a good or bad experience with their romantic partner in Study 5.

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“…Some experimental studies find suppression is associated with rebound in subsequent thoughts about smoking and more severe craving (Erskine, Georgiou, & Kvavilashvili, 2010;Salkovskis & Reynolds, 1994;Toll, Sobell, Wagner, & Sobell, 2001), while others either fail to find a relationship (Erskine et al, 2012;Haaga & Allison;Nosen & Woody, 2009;Reynolds, Valmana, Kouimtsidis, Donaldson, & Ghodse, 2005) or find potential benefits to craving suppression (Rogojanski, Vettese, & Antony, 2011a Richmond, Spring, Sommerfield, and McChargue (2001) conducted the sole study of rumination and smoking. In this cross-sectional, retrospective study of university students, rumination was more strongly correlated with depression among smokers than among non-smokers.…”

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