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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Trauma-related versus positive involuntary thoughts with and without meta-awareness |
Author: | Green, D.M. Strange, D. Lindsay, D.S. Takarangi, M.K.T. |
Citation: | Consciousness and Cognition, 2016; 46:163-172 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 1053-8100 1090-2376 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Deanne M. Green, Deryn Strange, D. Stephen Lindsay, Melanie K.T. Takarangi |
Abstract: | In earlier work, we asked subjects to report involuntary thoughts relating to a trauma film and also probed subjects periodically. Subjects often reported involuntary thoughts in response to probes, suggesting they lacked meta-awareness of those thoughts. But it is possible that some or all probe-detected thoughts were continuations of thoughts subjects had spontaneously reported, leading us to overestimate involuntary thoughts lacking metaawareness. It is also unclear whether failures in meta-awareness occur for other emotional events. We exposed subjects to a negative or positive film. Subsequently, they reported involuntary film-related thoughts and responded to probes that distinguished new from continuing thoughts. Many (54%) but not all probe-caught thoughts were thought continuations. This result supports our earlier finding that people can lack meta-awareness for trauma-related thoughts, but suggests caution in how meta-awareness is assessed. We also found that self-caught negative and positive involuntary thoughts occurred at a similar frequency, with different characteristics. |
Keywords: | Emotion; Intrusions; Mind-wandering; Meta-awareness |
Rights: | © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.concog.2016.09.019 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102661 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.09.019 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology publications |
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