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Thought

Everything on this site about thought — each one naming the study behind it.

Your brain prefers a world with simple, rigid categories.
Psychological essentialism leads you to believe that objects and people have an underlying, unchanging nature.…
You are blind to the persistence of your own thoughts.
The harder you attempt to suppress a specific thought, the more frequently it enters your awareness.…
You stop being curious the moment you name something.
Labeling an object shifts cognitive focus toward category prototypes at the expense of specific feature recall.…
You try to suppress thoughts and make them louder.
The 'ironic process theory' suggests that the effort to suppress a specific thought makes it more cognitively accessib…