Elisabeth thus rejects an account of mind that reduces thinking to bodily states, but at the same time she calls into question the idea that the capacity of thinking exists wholly independently of body, that is, that a thinking thing is substance properly speaking.
Furthermore, the trend towards a greater decrease in depressive rumination for RT + CNT relative to RT provides some evidence that CNT specifically reduced thinking characterised by abstract construals (Watkins, 2008).
Not knowing what specifically you will be eating later reduces thinking about food, which is helpful.
And despite his reputation for sophisticated, witty drawing-room dialogue, Novello was reduced to thinking up one-liners for Johnny Weissmuller, the US swimming champion donning the loincloth for the first time.
At this point, I've been reduced to thinking about Barbie.
Work on violent thinking and reducing machismo thinking could be a useful adjunct in anger management with violent offenders [ 63].
Thirdly, the critical thinking subscale could alert the students to the need to conduct higher order cognitive activities and may reduce superficial thinking.
But, having experienced the benefits of a suburban childhood, he refuses to reduce his thinking to a view in which wilderness preservation is the only solution.
Mindfulness helps improve our concentration and reduce ruminative thinking that contributes to the high levels of stress that is so prevalent in our society.
These have demonstrated that short-term manipulations that reduce analytical thinking temporarily ameliorate low memory specificity (e.g. Watkins & Teasdale, 2001, 2004; Watkins, Teasdale, & Williams, 2000), relative to manipulations that maintain analytical thinking.
