Cognitive Interference

<p>In this volume, the first synthesis of work on cognitive interference, leading researchers, theorists, and clinicians from around the world confront a number of important questions about intrusive thoughts and suggest a challenging agenda for the future.</p> <p><b>Contents: </b>Preface. <b>Part I: </b><i>Cognitive Interference and Information Processing.</i><b>E. Klinger,</b> The Contents of Thoughts: Interference as the Downside of Adaptive Normal Mechanisms in Thought Flow. <b>C.S. Carver,</b> Cognitive Interference and the Structure of Behavior. <b>C. MacLeod,</b> Anxiety and Cognitive Processes. <b>P.L. Yee, J. Vaughan,</b> Integrating Cognitive, Personality, and Social Approaches to Cognitive Interference and Distractibility. <b>R. Schwarzer,</b> Thought Control of Action: Interfering Self-Doubts. <b>M.W. Vasey, E.L. Daleiden,</b> Information-Processing Pathways to Cognitive Interference in Childhood. <b>I.G. Sarason, G.R. Pierce, B.R. Sarason,</b> Domains of Cognitive Interference. <b>R. Kanfer, P.L. Ackerman,</b> A Self-Regulatory Skills Perspective to Reducing Cognitive Interference. <b>Part II: </b><i>Cognitive Interference, Stress, and Performance.</i><b>S.M. Miller,</b> Monitoring and Blunting of Threatening Information: Cognitive Interference and Facilitation in the Coping Process. <b>M. Mikulincer,</b> Mental Rumination and Learned Helplessness: Cognitive Shifts During Helplessness Training and Their Behavioral Consequences. <b>M.A. Bruch,</b> Cognitive Interference and Social Interaction: The Case of Shyness and Nonassertiveness. <b>J.V. Wood, P. Dodgson,</b> When Is Self-Focused Attention an Adaptive Coping Response?: Rumination and Overgeneralization Versus Compensation. <b>R.E. Smith,</b> Performance Anxiety, Cognitive Interference, and Concentration Enhancement Strategies in Sports. <b>G.R. Pierce, C.A. Henderson, J.H. Yost, C.M. Loffredo,</b> Cognitive Interference, and Personality: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. <b>Part III: </b><i>Cognitive Interference and Clinical Problems.</i><b>M.J. Dombeck, G.J. Siegle, R.E. Ingram,</b> Cognitive Interference and Coping Strategies in Vulnerability to Negative Affect. <b>Z.V. Segal,</b> Cognitive Interference in Depressive and Anxiety-Based Disorders. <b>I.H. Gotlib, J.E. Roberts, E. Gilboa,</b> Cognitive Interference in Depression. <b>W. Nasby, J.L. Yates,</b> Toward a Network Model of Dissociative Mechanisms. <b>K.J. Craig, J.A. Heisler, A. Baum,</b> Intrusive Thought and the Maintenance of Chronic Stress.</p>