Voluntary involuntariness: Thought suppression and the regulation of the experience of will

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 684-694

  Wegner, Daniel M ^a   Erskine, James A K ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 0345445909     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00054-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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