The Thought Uniqueness Hypothesis

Hypothesis: Food for Thought

In 1971, Linus Pauling carried out a meta-analysis of four placebo-controlled trials and concluded that it was highly unlikely that the decrease in the "integrated morbidity of the common cold" in vitamin C groups was caused by chance alone (P < 0.00003). Studies carried out since then have consistently found that vitamin C (≥1 g/d) alleviates common cold symptoms, indicating that the vitamin d...

Language of Thought Hypothesis: State of the Art

The Cooking Hypothesis Revisited : Fresh Food for Thought

Richard Wrangham and colleagues first introduced the cooking hypothesis in a 1999 article entitled " The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins " (Wrangham, Jones, Laden, Pilbeam, and Conklin-Brittain, 1999). This hypothesis posits that because cooking greatly increases the quality of food, its origin and subsequent boost in energetics must have resulted in major transform...

Thought suppression failures in combat PTSD: a cognitive load hypothesis.

The present study investigated the relation between thought suppression of emotionally neutral content [i.e., Wegner's (1994) "white bear"], incidental traumatic thought intrusion, and skin conductance responses in combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Participants included service members who either: a) had PTSD following an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment; b) were free of ps...

Thought confidence as a determinant of persuasion: the self-validation hypothesis.

Previous research in the domain of attitude change has described 2 primary dimensions of thinking that impact persuasion processes and outcomes: the extent (amount) of thinking and the direction (valence) of issue-relevant thought. The authors examined the possibility that another, more meta-cognitive aspect of thinking is also important-the degree of confidence people have in their own thought...