YOU CANT ALWAYS THINK WHAT YOU WANT - PROBLEMS IN THE SUPPRESSION OF UNWANTED THOUGHTS

被引:162
作者
WEGNER, DM [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV VIRGINIA, DEPT PSYCHOL, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22903 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60284-1
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This chapter deals with psychological deadlock-between the urge to suppress, and the daunting task of suppression. A general account of thought suppression is offered that considers the pressures that instigate suppression, the process of suppression, and post-suppression processes and consequences. This account treats thought suppression as one of a class of phenomena of mental control-conscious attempts to control psychological contents and processes and suggests how thought suppression may be involved in the larger enterprise of the self-control of emotion, action, and communication in social life. Sigmund Freud is responsible both for thought suppression, and for initiating the study of repression. Suppression is provoked when the person's situation prompts the inhibition of some external expression of a thought. Normally, the external expressions people attempt to forestall in this way take the form of actions, communications, or emotional expressions. In each case, thought suppression is attempted as a preemptive strategy aimed at inhibition of the overt psychological consequences of the thought. The experimental study of thought suppression echoes the same implications that Freud drew from his psychoanalytic study of repression. © 1992, Academic Press Inc.
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页码:193 / 225
页数:33
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