Cognitive behavioral theories trace the origins of clinical obsessions to common unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or impulses that are universally experienced in the general population. It is the erroneous interpretation of the intrusion as a personally significant threat that must be diminished or neutralized that result in the vicious escalation into a clinical obsession. This paper review...

Exposure to natural environments has been shown to have beneficial effects on mood. Rumination is a thinking style associated with negative mood, and sometimes depression, and is characterized by repetitive, intrusive thoughts, often with a negative emotional element. This study investigated whether exposure to nature, operationalized using photographs presented as a slideshow, could aid reduct...

The authors examined the influence of talking and the social context of talking on cognitive-emotional processes of adjustment to stressors. Two hundred fifty-six undergraduates viewed a stressful stimulus and were then assigned to a no-talk control condition or 1 of 3 talk conditions: talk alone, talk to a validating confederate, or talk to an invalidating confederate. Two days later, they wer...

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder has the highest rate of suicide of all the psychiatric disorders. In unipolar depression, individuals report vivid, affect-laden images of suicide or the aftermath of death (flashforwards to suicide) during suicidal ideation but this phenomenon has not been explored in bipolar disorder. Therefore the authors investigated and compared imagery and verbal thoughts relate...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To understand the relationship between mammography history and current thoughts about obtaining a mammogram among Latinas and examine the mediation effects of several healthcare factors.
. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey.
. SETTING Federally qualified health centers (Sea Mar Community Health Centers) in western Washington.
. SAMPLE 641 Latinas nonadherent and adherent wit...

Hypertext constitutes a new way to communicate and think about information. Hypertextual nonsequentiality offers us new ways to analyze the world and facilitates access to philosophical activity to thousands of new social actors. Hypertext is democratising thought and enabling debates between different widely dispersed people. This paper considers hypertext’s role inside new social, scientific ...

The oceans encompass the most important ecosystems for the health of our planet, most of it unseen and at depths unimaginably remote and little explored. It is there that microbial communities pulse to the ancient rhythms of life on earth. Researchers are beginning to plumb these mysterious depths to learn what organisms are there and how they interact to shape the global cycles of macronutrien...

In this paper we use the example of Jamie Oliver’s School Dinners campaign to explore a number of issues of relevance to critical management studies and research namely; the potential and limitations of critical research (CR) (social change and emancipation); achieving the aims of CR (criticality and praxis); the power of the (celebrity) researcher as critical and change management. The main po...

This article reviews empirical findings on two key premises of the appraisal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): (a) non-clinical populations experience intrusive thoughts (ITs) that are similar in form and in content to obsessions; and (b) ITs develop into obsessions because they are appraised according to dysfunctional beliefs. There is support for the universality of ITs. However, ...