Articulated thoughts during simulated situations: A paradigm for studying cognition in emotion and behavior

In spite of the widespread belief of cognitive behavior therapists and researchers that irrational thinking underlies much human psychological suffering, there is little if any direct evidence bearing on the assumption that people think in particular ways when confronted with stressful situations. A paradigm is proposed that appears capable of providing information about people's articulated thoughts as they occur in highly structured, experimenter-controlled situations. The results from an initial experiment indicate the utility of the paradigm in collecting data on how people think under both stressful and neutral conditions. The paradigm seems to offer great flexibility in examining thought processes under a wide range of conditions of interest to psychopathologists and cognitive researchers. © 1983 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

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Author Clive Justin Robins Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychol ...