10 Thoughts You Have Every Day That Aren't Actually Yours

You think about 6,000 thoughts a day. Research suggests you authored fewer of them than you think.This video covers 10 documented phenomena — intrusive thoughts, earworms, confabulation, semantic satiation, priming, anchoring, social contagion, the Zeigarnik effect, the default mode network, and thought insertion — each demonstrating a different mechanism by which the brain generates content without your conscious authorization.Sources and timestamps below. ─── CHAPTERS ─── 0:00 Intrusive Thoughts 2:41 The Earworm 5:14 Confabulation 7:53 Semantic Satiation 10:29 Priming 13:09 The Anchoring Cascade 15:45 Social Contagion 18:32 The Zeigarnik Effect 21:15 The Default Mode Network 24:22 Thought Insertion ─── REFERENCES ─── 1. Radomsky, A.S., Alcolado, G.M., Abramowitz, J.S., Alonso, P., Belloch, A., Bouvard, M., ... & Wong, W. (2014). Part 1 — You can run but you can't hide: Intrusive thoughts on six continents. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 3(3), 269–279. 2. Wegner, D.M., Schneider, D.J., Carter, S.R., & White, T.L. (1987). Paradoxical effects of thought suppression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53(1), 5–13. 3. Williamson, V.J., Jilka, S.R., Fry, J., Finkel, S., Mullensiefen, D., & Stewart, L. (2012). How do 'earworms' start? Classifying the everyday circumstances of Involuntary Musical Imagery. Psychology of Music, 40(3), 259–284. 4. Hall, L., Johansson, P., Tärning, B., Sikström, S., & Deutgen, T. (2010). Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea. Cognition, 117(1), 54–61. 5. Johansson, P., Hall, L., Sikström, S., & Olsson, A. (2005). Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task. Science, 310(5745), 116–119. 6. Strack, F., & Mussweiler, T. (1997). Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect: Mechanisms of selective accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(3), 437–446. 7. Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185(4157), 1124–1131. 8. Christakis, N.A., & Fowler, J.H. (2007). The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(4), 370–379. 9. Zeigarnik, B. (1927). Über das Behalten von erledigten und unerledigten Handlungen [On the memory of completed and uncompleted actions]. Psychologische Forschung, 9, 1–85. 10. Raichle, M.E., MacLeod, A.M., Snyder, A.Z., Powers, W.J., Gusnard, D.A., & Shulman, G.L. (2001). A default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(2), 676–682. 11. Killingsworth, M.A., & Gilbert, D.T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330(6006), 932. 12. Bargh, J.A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(2), 230–244. 13. Deeley, Q., Oakley, D.A., Toone, B., Giampietro, V., Brammer, M.J., Williams, S.C., & Halligan, P.W. (2012). Modulating the default mode network using hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 60(2), 206–228. 14. Jakobovits James, L.A. (1962). Semantic satiation in concept formation and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(3), 273–281. intrusive thoughts, earworms, priming psychology, anchoring bias, default mode network, confabulation, semantic satiation, Zeigarnik effect, social contagion, thought insertion, cognitive psychology, neuroscience explained, psychology facts, subconscious mind, involuntary thoughts #Psychology #Neuroscience #HowYourBrainWorks