Emotion, Thought and Therapy.

Habits in everyday life: thought, emotion, and action.

To illustrate the differing thoughts and emotions involved in guiding habitual and nonhabitual behavior, 2 diary studies were conducted in which participants provided hourly reports of their ongoing experiences. When participants were engaged in habitual behavior, defined as behavior that had been performed almost daily in stable contexts, they were likely to think about issues unrelated to the...

Inhibition of Action, Thought, and Emotion: A Selective Neurobiological Review.

The neural bases of inhibitory function are reviewed, covering data from paradigms assessing inhibition of motor responses (antisaccade, go/nogo, stop-signal), cognitive sets (e.g., Wisconsin Card Sort Test), and emotion (fear extinction). The frontal cortex supports performance on these paradigms, but the specific neural circuitry varies: response inhibition depends upon fronto-basal ganglia n...

The Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Thought Control Strategies on Pornography Use

Objective: Due to easy accessibility to pornography for adolescents and youth, research on the use of pornography has proliferated in recent years. The aim of this study was to examine‌ the role of difficulties in emotion regulation and thought control strategies on pornography use. Methods: The population of this research included all students of the Sistan and Baluchestan University in south...

Predicting Generalized Anxiety Disorder Based on Emotion Regulation Deficits, Thought-Action Fusion, and Behavioral Inhibition

Background & Aims: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) can be affected by different emotional, cognitive, and natural factors. The purpose of this study was to predict GAD based on emotion regulation deficits, thought-action fusion, and behavioral inhibition. Methods: This was a correlational study. The study sample was comprised of 135 patients with GAD selected from amo...

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy