AUTOMATION OF MENTAL CONTROL

精神控制自动化

• 批准号: 6186593
• 负责人: DANIEL M WEGNER
• 金额: $ 4.6万
• 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 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6186593
• 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(申请者摘要)：有效的社交和 个人适应需要人们经常试图影响他们自己 头脑。当人们试图停止思考时，他们就会进行这种精神控制 例如，关于某事，或者当他们试图避免不想要的或 不适当的情绪或欲望。经常试图控制精神状态 然而，失败了，过去的研究表明，这种情况的发生是因为精神 控制产生具有讽刺意味的过程--无意识的故障监控过程 这促进了人们最希望避免的心理状态的出现。 这就是为什么不想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讽刺 当反复练习精神控制时，过程会被克服 像任何练习的技能一样变得自动化，精神控制应该成为 更有效的排练，这项研究通过以下方式检验其可能性 专注于在实验室中进行精神控制的排练和 对可能患有慢性病的特殊人群进行检测 过去的精神控制。但也像任何一种已经成为 自动的，精神控制可以在任何时候被人更新 有意识地控制和监测这一过程。这种脆弱的自动化 在这些研究中对假设进行了检验，以查看是否记得那个假设 是试图控制一个人的思想可以重新引入讽刺的想法和情绪 即使在精神控制已经变得自动之后。这项研究应该有 对心理健康的几个关键影响。心智的自动化 控制过程及其随之而来的脆弱的自动性可能是 与抑郁症、强迫症的病因有关 饮食失调，也可能是社会派系问题的基础 源于对社交不当行为的控制失误。