Research Catalog

Title

Cognitive interference : theories, methods, and findings / edited by Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Sarason, Irwin G.
• Pierce, Gregory R.
• Sarason, Barbara R.

Description

xii, 441 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Cognitive interference refers to the unwanted and often disturbing thoughts that intrude on a person's life. Mounting evidence in a number of areas has shown that cognitive interference plays an important role in stress, poor performance, slow learning, social maladjustment, psychopathology, and behaviors resulting in accidents. The empirical evidence of cognitive interference is impressive, yet it is also scattered across several disciplines that often do not communicate with one another.
• This book synthesizes and integrates work on cognitive interference. It reviews the major types of interfering thoughts, how they are assessed, the mechanisms by which they influence behavior, and their theoretical and practical significance.
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• The chapter authors of this cohesive and integrated volume are among the leading researchers, theorists, and clinicians in the study of various types of unwanted thoughts.
• Aimed at researchers and practitioners whose efforts are directed at understanding cognitive interference, the book is organized into three sections: theoretical analyses of cognitive interference, the book is organized into three sections: theoretical analyses of cognitive interference, the role of cognitive interference in influencing performance and social behavior, and the pervasive and debilitating manifestations of cognitive interference that clinicians treat.

Series Statement

LEA series in personality and clinical psychology

Uniform Title

LEA series in personality and clinical psychology.

Subjects

• Cognition
• Interference (Perception)
• Cognitive psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Contents of Thoughts: Interference as the Downside of Adaptive Normal Mechanisms in Thought Flow / Eric Klinger -- 2. Cognitive Interference and the Structure of Behavior / Charles S. Carver -- 3. Anxiety and Cognitive Processes / Colin MacLeod -- 4. Integrating Cognitive, Personality, and Social Approaches to Cognitive Interference and Distractibility / Penny L. Yee and Jonathan Vaughan -- 5. Thought Control of Action: Interfering Self-Doubts / Ralf Schwartzer -- 6. Information-Processing Pathways to Cognitive Interference in Childhood / Michael W. Vasey and Eric L. Daleiden -- 7. Domains of Cognitive Interference / Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce and Barbara R. Sarason -- 8. A Self-Regulatory Skills Perspective to Reducing Cognitive Interference / Ruth Kanfer and Phillip L. Ackerman -- 9. Monitoring and Blunting of Threatening Information: Cognitive Interference and Facilitation in the Coping Process / Suzanne M. Miller --
• 10. Mental Rumination and Learned Helplessness: Cognitive Shifts During Helplessness Training and Their Behavioral Consequences / Mario Mikulincer -- 11. Cognitive Interference and Social Interaction: The Case of Shyness and Nonassertiveness / Monroe A. Bruch -- 12. When Is Self-Focused Attention an Adaptive Coping Response?: Rumination and Overgeneralization Versus Compensation / Joanne V. Wood and Philip Dodgson -- 13. Performance Anxiety, Cognitive Interference, and Concentration Enhancement Strategies in Sports / Ronald E. Smith -- 14. Cognitive Interference and Personality: Theoretical and Methodological Issues / Gregory R. Pierce, Ciarda A. Henderson, John H. Yost and Cynthia M. Loffredo -- 15. Cognitive Interference and Coping Strategies in Vulnerability to Negative Affect / Mark J. Dombeck, Greg J. Siegle and Rick E. Ingram -- 16. Cognitive Interference in Depressive and Anxiety-Based Disorders / Zindel V. Segal --
• 17. Cognitive Interference in Depression / Ian H. Gotlib, John E. Roberts and Eva Gilboa -- 18. Toward a Network Model of Dissociative Mechanisms / William Nasby and Jean L. Yates -- 19. Intrusive Thought and the Maintenance of Chronic Stress / Karrie J. Craig, Jennifer A. Heisler and Andrew Baum.

ISBN

0805816240 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95040959

OCLC

ocm33161494

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries