AUTOMATIZATION OF MENTAL CONTROL

心理控制的自动化

• 批准号: 2675044
• 负责人: DANIEL M WEGNER
• 金额: $ 10.52万
• 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 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2675044
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognitive behavior therapy; eating disorders; emotions; human subject; human therapy evaluation; learning; locus of control; mind control; obsessive compulsive disorder; psychic activity level; suppression

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Effective social interaction and personal adaptation requires that people often try to influence their own minds. People engage in such mental control when they try to stop thinking about something, for example, or when they attempt to avoid unwanted or inappropriate emotions or desires. Attempts to control mental states often fail, however, and past research suggests that this happens because mental control produces ironic processes unconscious failure-monitoring processes that promote the appearance of the mental states people most hope to avoid. This is why unwanted thoughts and emotions often arise at precisely the worst times. The specific aim of this project is to see whether such ironic processes are overcome when mental control is practiced repeatedly and becomes automatized Like any practiced skill, mental control should become more effective with rehearsal, and this research examines its possibility by focusing both on rehearsal of mental control in the laboratory and on the testing of special populations who are likely to have engaged in chronic mental control in the past. But also like any skill that has become automatic, mental control can be disrupted whenever the person renews conscious control and monitoring of the process. This fragile automaticity hypothesis is tested in these studies, to see whether remembering that one is trying to control one's mind can reintroduce ironic thoughts and emotions even after mental control has become automatic. This research should have several key implications for mental health. The automatization of mental control processes, and its accompanying fragile automaticity, may be implicated in the etiology of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and eating disorders, and may also underlie social interfactional problems that arise from error in the control of socially inappropriate behavior.

描述（申请人的摘要）：有效的社会互动和 个人适应要求人们经常试图影响他们自己， 头脑. 当人们试图停止思考时， 例如，当他们试图避免不必要的或 不适当的情绪或欲望。 控制精神状态的尝试 然而，过去的研究表明，这种情况的发生是因为心理上的 控制产生反讽过程无意识的失败监控过程 促使人们最希望避免的精神状态出现。 这就是为什么不必要的想法和情绪经常出现在 最糟糕的时候 这个项目的具体目的是看看这种具有讽刺意味的 当反复练习精神控制时， 就像任何熟练的技能一样，精神控制应该成为 更有效的排练，这项研究探讨其可能性， 重点是在实验室中进行精神控制的排练， 对可能从事慢性病的特殊人群进行检测 精神控制在过去。 但就像任何一种技能， 自动的，精神控制可以中断时，人更新 有意识地控制和监控过程。 这种脆弱的自动性 在这些研究中验证了假设，看看是否记住了一个 试图控制一个人的思想可以重新引入讽刺的想法和情绪 即使精神控制已经成为自动的。 这项研究应该 对心理健康的几个重要影响。 心理的自动化 控制过程及其伴随的脆弱的自动性，可能是 与抑郁症、强迫症和 饮食失调，也可能是社会派系问题的基础， 这是由于对不恰当的社交行为的控制失误。