The role of thought suppression in building mental blocks

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1123-1130

  Kozak, Megan ^a   Weylin Sternglanz, R ^b   Viswanathan, Uma ^c   Wegner, Daniel M ^c  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Mental blocks; Problem solving; Thought suppression; Tip of the tongue states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CREATIVITY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; THINKING; THOUGHT SUPPRESSION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; SEMANTICS; THINKING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 55749115224     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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