The phrase "automatic thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, cognitive processes, or decision-making, referring to thoughts that occur spontaneously without conscious deliberation.
Example: "Automatic thinking can often lead to snap judgments that may not reflect reality."
Alternatives: "spontaneous thought" or "unconscious reasoning.".
"The Dictionary of Received Ideas" is a complaint against automatic thinking.
Other studies, however, found that such rapid shifts in focus, even if performed adeptly, result in less rigorous and "more automatic" thinking.
Food for thought: How many of life's normal, everyday problems do we approach with mindless, automatic thinking that we can remedy any problem with a product?
Annie and Raymond's story is an example of how distorted, usually negative, thoughts and beliefs can be passed down in a multi-generational fashion from grandpa to mom to son and so on to form core beliefs and automatic thinking about people and the world in general.
Nock and Kazdin[ 18] have identified negative automatic thinking as a risk factor for suicide attempts.
Research in psychology and neuroscience has shown that individual decision-making and subsequent behaviours depend on both rational and non-deliberative, automatic thinking [ 28, 29].
On the basis of the homework of lesson 3, participants try to reconsider the rationale behind the automatic thought, seek alternative thinking and replace automatic thought with rational thinking.
Doctors often rely on automatic, fast thinking when interacting with patients.
When the costumer is asked to compare four options or more, the process becomes cognitively complicated; automatic relative thinking is based on simple mental shortcuts.
Mr Stoltenberg told the VG newspaper: "I'm pretty well known in Oslo, but I tend to sit in the back seat". The Labour prime minister came in for criticism for his driving, at one point jolting the car abruptly when, he said, he mistakenly applied the brake pedal on the automatic car, thinking it was the clutch.
This automatic negative thinking is just a deep-rooted habit, and it can be changed.
