Thought Suppression Induces Intrusions
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Vol. 18 (4), 251-258
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0141347300010351
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to investigate whether deliberate attempts to avoid a thought content have paradoxical effects. Twenty-four Ss received thought suppression instructions, 16 neutral instructions. Thought suppression resulted in an increased number of occurrences of the thought to be suppressed. The contribution of the results to the theory of obsessions is discussed.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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