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

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

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In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This video aired last week on Fox News.

Homelessness & mental health are an issue that needs to be dealt with using humanity & empathy in the United States.

A host on #FoxNews called for "#involuntary #euthanasia" of the #homeless, or at least threw around that idea recklessly.

The most recent data from 2024, shows that there are at least 32,000 homeless veterans & they account for between 5%-7% of the entire population.

#USPol #auspol #TrumpRegime

https://youtu.be/bs9KtC-aYf4?si=r49W3I3JnFQb_hFy

Parents charged with involuntary manslaughter after son, 7, killed by car in N.C. #Crime #Trending #US News #child hit by car #involuntary manslaughter

https://globalnews.ca/news/11214748/parents-charged-death-son-hit-car-north-carolina//612

#Involuntary #servitude still exists in California. -- A ballot measure in November could change that

If voted into law, #Proposition6 would ✅ abolish forced labor as a criminal punishment in the state’s prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/california-prop-6-prison-slavery-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

At least a third of the publicly funded #AddictionTreatment beds #BCgovernment claims are available for drug users across #BritishColumbia do not actually offer treatment, the #IJF has learned.

“B.C. now has 3,645 publicly funded substance-use treatment beds, including 659 beds opened since 2017 with more to come,” the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions announced in an Aug. 27 press release.

But a breakdown of the available types of adult and youth treatment options provided by the ministry shows that its tally includes 1,232 low-barrier housing beds, accounting for about 34 per cent of the total.

#Addictions treatment is not directly provided in low-barrier housing in B.C., but is part of “a full continuum of support services,” the ministry said in an email to the IJF. This type of facility simply makes shelter available to people who use drugs, without requiring them to abstain or be in treatment.

The news comes as both the #BCConservatives and the #BCNDP government are touting #involuntary addiction care as a solution to the province’s ongoing #ToxicDrugCrisis.

That #political focus is deeply frustrating for Correne Antrobus of #MomsStopTheHarm, an advocacy group led by families affected by tainted illegal drugs.

https://theijf.org/bc-publicly-funded-addiction-treatment-low-barrier-housing

#BCpoli #Medical #PublicHealth #HarmfulPolicy #Cruelty #HumanRights #MentalHealth #AddictionsStigma #MentalIllnessStigma #BreakTheSitgmas #HelpNotHarm #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #FundMentalWellness #FundSocialHousing #NeverVoteConservative #NeverVoteNeoliberal #BCElection2024 #BCVotes2024 #BCelection #CDNpoli

#JenniferCrumbley, mother of #EthanCrumbley, found #guilty of #involuntary #manslaughter in son’s #schoolshooting

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