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Summary: The article reports on a study showing that repetitive thinking about a topic can prime involuntary memories related to that topic, a phenomenon called preoccupation priming. Through a controlled experiment, researchers demonstrated a causal link between sustained thought about food and increased food-related involuntary memories, as well as a rise in total involuntary memories. The findings suggest daily thinking habits can shape which memories surface spontaneously.

This article is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it provides experimental evidence for how cognitive processes like rumination influence memory retrieval, highlighting the interaction between attention, memory systems, and daily mental life.

Article Title: New psychology research reveals how repetitive thinking primes involuntary memories

Link to PsyPost Article: www dot psypost.org/new-psychology-research-reveals-how-repetitive-thinking-primes-involuntary-memories/

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#psychology #memory #preoccupation priming #involuntary memories #cognition

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 17

A quotation from George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme

Cyril I. 🧮📐Mar 30, 2025

Jean-Pierre #Bellon (professeur de philosophie qui a diffusé la #Méthode de #Préoccupation #Partagée) trouve dommage qu’on utilise le même mot « #harcèlement » à l’école et dans le monde du travail (et des adultes en général) 🧠🏫💼.

Il préfère le mot « #intimidation », et je lui donne raison 👍. Même en anglais, cette distinction existe d’ailleurs clairement : *bullying* pour le harcèlement entre élèves, et *harassment* entre adultes.

Il faut donc intervenir dès la moindre *intimidation* pour éviter qu’elle ne se transforme en *harcèlement*... ⏰🚨.

Je crois n'avoir jamais harcelé… En revanche, concernant l’intimidation, puis-je en dire autant...? 🤔

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 3, 2025

A quotation from Dannie Abse

That Greek one then is my hero, who watched the bath water
rise above his navel and rushed out naked. “I found it,
I found it” into the street in all his shining, and forgot
that others would only stare at his genitals. What laughter!

Daniel "Dannie" Abse (1923-2014) Welsh poet
Poem (1952), “Letter to Alex Comfort,” Walking Under Water

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#quote #quotes #quotation #discovery #distraction #epiphany #eureka #nakedness #preoccupation #revelation

Poem (1952), "Letter to Alex Comfort," Walking Under Water - Abse, Dannie | WIST Quotations

That Greek one then is my hero, who watched the bath water rise above his navel and rushed out naked. "I found it, I found it" into the street in all his shining, and forgot that others would only stare at his genitals. What laughter! Referring to Archimedes.

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