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Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression

Daniel Wegner, David Schneider, Samuel Carter, Teri White · Jul 1, 1987

The "white bear" study: tell someone not to think of something and it floods the workspace. Anthropic cite it because they can run the experiment cleanly: instruct the model to suppress a concept and watch it persist in the J-space anyway. A sixty-year-old human finding, now reproducible with an activation read-out.

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