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As the work of Daniel Wegner makes clear, suppressing your worries doesn't work;
This[exposure] is painful,” Wegner said in a 2011 APA statement,“but it can work.”.
In a follow-up experiment, Wegner and colleagues instructed another group of participants to only
think about white bears for five minutes.
Daniel Wegner was so intrigued by Dostoevsky's“polar bear”
hypothesis that he designed a psychological experiment to test this 19th-century observation in a 20th-century laboratory setting.
By the dawn of this century, it became clear to Wegner that people were hungry for some take-home advice
based on the paradoxical findings of his“white bear” experiments.
The first of these experiments was conducted by Daniel Wegner, who noticed that when we are trying hard to ignore
or suppress a thought, it often just keeps coming back.
Wegner's fifth recommendation of“exposure” is based on the
counterintuitive hypothesis that if you force yourself to consciously focus attention(for a brief period) on thinking about something you're ultimately trying to forget, the unwanted thought is less likely to pop into your mind at a later date.
In the 1980s, Daniel Wegner(1948-2013)- who was a pioneering social psychologist at Harvard University best
known for his groundbreaking research on thought suppression- stumbled upon the above-mentioned Dostoevsky“polar bear” quote, which inspired him to dedicate the rest of his life to deconstructing the best way to deliberately forget about something.
For example, in his book Illusion of Conscious Will, Daniel Wegner points out what he believes is the most remarkable characteristic
of those using a ouija board(in which the planchette- often an upturned shot glass- on which the subjects' index fingers are gently resting appears to wander independently around the board, spelling out messages from"beyond"):.