It appears that the level of convergent thinking may largely determine the degree to which one's thinking is considered either creative (i.e. increased convergent thinking) or psychotic (i.e. decreased convergent thinking), as well as the associated productivity.
The main goal of this training is to decrease suicidal thinking by stimulating realistic future thinking and reducing hopelessness.
"It decreases obsessional thinking about food and helps people control their eating," Dr. Waitman said.
Research suggests just the opposite -- for many teens it actually decreases suicidal thinking and is a relief to share such a painful "secret" with their parents.
Positive cognitions were successively increased, and patients learned to improve their use of coping strategies to decrease catastrophic thinking with the consequence of reduced affective distress.
Results of the study showed that the disorganized and interpersonal traits of schizotypy decreased when participants were thinking about themselves in the virtual world.
Study 3 addressed a limitation of studies 1 and 2, the possibility that simply thinking about others decreased social discounting.
Patients with fatigue report having decreased mental endurance and slowed thinking and feel overwhelmed [ 4].
In the current study, men's cognitive performance might have decreased because they were busy thinking about the upcoming interaction and their interaction partner.
Our results suggest that patients with schizophrenia exhibit impaired abstract thinking and decreased quality of gaze.
Patients with schizophrenia showed impaired abstract thinking and decreased quality of gaze, which were positively associated with each other.
