Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (26)

Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise (2012)
Journal Article
Meier, B. P., Weger, U. W., Hooper, N., & Hopthrow, T. (2012). Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(1), 471-475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.011

Individuals who experience stereotype threat - the pressure resulting from social comparisons that are perceived as unfavourable - show performance decrements across a wide range of tasks. One account of this effect is that the cognitive pressure tri... Read More about Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise.

Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings (2012)
Journal Article
Sandoz, E. K., Hooper, N., Ashton, J., Clarke, A., & McHugh, L. (2012). Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings. Eating Behaviors, 13(1), 62-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.10.002

Handling food cravings seems to play a major role in weight management. Many try to simply avoid cravings. However, avoidance based techniques like thought suppression can make attempts to deal with cravings more difficult. Recent research suggests t... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings.

A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking (2012)
Book Chapter
McHugh, L., Stewart, I., & Hooper, N. (2012). A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking. In L. McHugh, I. Stewart, & M. Williams (Eds.), The Self and Perspective Taking; Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science (55-71). US: New Harbinger

Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear (2011)
Journal Article
Hooper, N., Davies, N., Davies, L., & McHugh, L. (2011). Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1824-1830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.05.013

The current study compared thought suppression, focused attention (mindfulness) and unfocused attention as strategies for managing spider fear. Spider fearful participants were exposed to a strategy induction before completing a Behavioural Approach... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear.

The effects of mindfulness versus thought suppression on implicit and explicit measures of experiential avoidance (2010)
Journal Article
Hooper, N., & McHugh, L. (2010). The effects of mindfulness versus thought suppression on implicit and explicit measures of experiential avoidance

The current study aimed to provide an implicit measure of experiential avoidance (EA). Fifty undergraduate participants were exposed to an implicit (Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: IRAP) and an explicit (Acceptance and Action Questionnair... Read More about The effects of mindfulness versus thought suppression on implicit and explicit measures of experiential avoidance.

The derived generalization of thought suppression (2010)
Journal Article
Hooper, N., Saunders, J., & McHugh, L. (2010). The derived generalization of thought suppression. Learning and Behavior, 38(2), 160-168. https://doi.org/10.3758/LB.38.2.160

Thought suppression appears to be a relatively ineffective and even counterproductive strategy for dealing with unwanted thoughts. However, the psychological processes responsible for unsuccessful suppression are still underspecified. One process tha... Read More about The derived generalization of thought suppression.