IRONIC PROCESSES OF MENTAL CONTROL

具有讽刺意味的精神控制过程

• 批准号: 2248676
• 负责人: DANIEL M WEGNER
• 金额: $ 12.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-06-01 至 1997-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2248676
• 关键词: anxiety; arousal; cognition; depression; human subject; mind control; pain; pleasure; prejudice; questionnaires; relaxation; self concept; sleep; suggestion

Effective social interaction requires that people often try to influence their own minds. Mental control is a term for such self-regulation of mental states. People engage in mental control when they try to stop thinking about something, when they attempt to avoid unwanted or inappropriate emotions or desires, and when they try to create such states as well. The goal of this project is to test and refine a theory of ironic processes of mental control. According to this theory, any attempt to control the mind introduces both an operating process that promotes the intended change and an ironic process that tends to counteract this change. The operating process requires greater cognitive capacity than the ironic process, so mental control only works as intended when people have sufficient cognitive capacity. When they are distracted or under a stress that introduces cognitive load, their attempts to control their minds will regularly yield precisely the ironic opposite of what they intend. This idea is applied here to several domains of mental control with both personal and social consequences: The control of arousal, pain, depression, prejudice, and self-esteem. For each of these domains, studies are planned to examine what happens when people try to exert control over their minds with or without the presence of distracting cognitive loads. The specific aims of the project include (1) testing the generality of the theory across these various domains, and (2) refining the theory through studies designed to examine the limiting conditions for ironic effects. If the proposed research is conducted, it should have several key implications for mental health. Ironic processes of mental control may be implicated in the etiology of psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and sleep disorders, and may also underlie social interactional problems that arise from errors in the control of socially inappropriate behavior.

有效的社会互动需要人们经常试图影响 他们自己的思想。精神控制是一种自我调节的术语。 精神状态。当人们试图停下来时，他们会进行精神控制 想着什么，当他们试图避免不想要的或 不适当的情绪或欲望，以及当他们试图创造这样的状态 也是。这个项目的目标是测试和提炼一种反讽理论 精神控制的过程。根据这一理论，任何试图 控制头脑引入了一种操作过程，促进了 预期的变化和一个具有讽刺意味的过程，往往会抵消这种变化。 操作过程需要比讽刺的认知能力更大的能力 过程，所以精神控制只有在人们有 有足够的认知能力。当他们分心或承受压力时 这带来了认知负荷，他们试图控制自己的思想意志 经常会产生与他们意图相反的具有讽刺意味的结果。这 思想在这里应用于精神控制的几个领域，既有 个人和社会后果：控制唤醒、疼痛、 抑郁、偏见和自尊。对于这些领域中的每一个，研究 计划研究当人们试图对 他们的大脑是否存在令人分心的认知负荷。 该项目的具体目标包括(1)测试 这些不同领域的理论，以及(2)通过 旨在研究讽刺效果的极限条件的研究。如果 拟议的研究已经进行，它应该有几个关键影响 为了心理健康。具有讽刺意味的精神控制过程可能牵涉到 心理障碍的病因，如抑郁、焦虑、 强迫症和睡眠障碍，也可能是 因控制失误而产生的社会互动问题 不恰当的社交行为。