Get Up And Do Something: Negative thoughts should be written down, torn up, thrown away: Ohio State study

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Negative thoughts should be written down, torn up, thrown away: Ohio State study
Nov 29th 2012, 11:31

If you want to get rid of unwanted, negative thoughts, try just ripping them up and tossing them in the trash.

In a new study, researchers found that when people wrote down their thoughts on a piece of paper and then threw the paper away, they mentally discarded the thoughts as well.

On the other hand, people were more likely to use their thoughts when making judgments if they first wrote them down on a piece of paper and tucked the paper in a pocket to protect it.

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