According to Jacobi's report of his conversation with Lessing, after a disquisition on his part regarding the devastating effects of a thought based on the demands of reason alone, and upon Lessing's apparent declaration of sympathy for Spinoza, Jacobi had urged upon the latter to perform a salto mortale (Jacobi, 1785: 17), i.e., a kind of jump, heels over head, that would redress his position.
Neutralisation refers to an attempt to reduce, remove or compensate for the discomforting effect of an intrusive thought, image or impulse (Rachman, Shafran, Mitchell, Trant, & Teachman, 1996).
Analyses of decision times and reason judgment correlations suggest that the effects of analytic thought in this domain are partially due to a general shift in decision strategy, and not exclusively to biases in the content of generated reasons.
The current study used a novel within-subjects design to test for the effects of analytic thought (reasons analysis) on the quality of the resulting judgments, as well as on subsequent, unanalyzed judgments of the same stimuli.
The current study examined the effects of a psychoeducational intervention designed to target thought-action fusion (TAF) on TAF, thought suppression, and responsibility cognitions.
In effect, a thought of superiority whether it be about race, culture or religion has astonishing power to create barriers and conflict with fellow beings.
Genuine hypotheses about the effects of language on thought will always have a duality: there will be a linguistic part and a non-linguistic one.
This emphasis on acceptance initially emerged from the influential thought suppression literature, which demonstrates the sometimes paradoxical effects of attempts at thought control.
The lacerating effects of those thoughts tear through nearly every page of Tranny, a book which takes as its subtitle Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sell-Out.
Then there is the question of the possible physical effects of our thoughts, ideas, and feelings, which are described in a third language, the language of psychology.
More significant were the effects of classical economic thought on free-trade doctrine.
