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Do you sometimes repeat some unnecessary ideas in your brain? You may be the first reaction to tell yourself not to think about it and forced yourself to stop thinking, but doing so can not stop these ideas from appearing again, and even strengthen them.

Just as someone tells you not to think about "elephant", the word "elephant" may be left in your brain.

A new study published by Researchers at the University of Hebrew in Jerusalem's University of Hebrews in "PLOS Computational Biology" shows that if you want to control some unnecessary repeated ideas, you will take the initiative to control (not suppress) your own ideas at the beginning. Essence

Researchers recruited 80 participants for experiments, all participants checked words on the screen, and had to enter the related words related to this. The people in a group were informed in advance that if they had repeated associations, they would not get money rewards, so they began to suppress the idea of ​​previous words. The other group is to do a free association task to actively trigger some alternative associations. Office utensils instead of telling yourself not to think about chairs again).

The results show that the idea of ​​suppressing or suppressing duplicate will strengthen these ideas, and to do some alternative associations can help people reduce the corresponding ideas.

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Fradkin, I., ELDAR, E. If You Don'T'Tit it in, you do'T'T'T'T'T'T'T't to get it out: Thought Premption as a Method to Control unwanted thoughTs. .org/10.1371/Journal.PCBI.1010285

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