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Confirmed: You can literally throw your negative thoughts away

According to new research in Psychological Science, writing down your negative thoughts and tossing them in the garbage can erase your bad mood. …

In one of Petty’s experiments, 83 people were asked to write down thoughts on their body image, then either throw them away or keep them. The results: People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

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He’s been talking to Deepak Chopra, right?

vityas on December 29, 2012 at 6:57 PM

Written down and tossed out? “I despise Barack Obama, far more than even Bill Clinton — whom I thought at the time insurmountable.”

Resultant feelings? Epic fail. I hate Obama even more now; my hatred for him only grows with each passing second — seemingly without bounds …

ShainS on December 29, 2012 at 6:59 PM

but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

Denial. Fat is fat – deal with it!

OldEnglish on December 29, 2012 at 7:04 PM

ShainS on December 29, 2012 at 6:59 PM

Thought about doing the same thing. Wish it worked – thanks for saving me the trouble.

The Count on December 29, 2012 at 7:11 PM

NBC: Confirmed: You can literally throw your negative thoughts away

Alternative headline:

Inadvertently, NBC explains what Comcast will eventually do to MSNBC because of its wall-to-wall nattering nabobs of negativity asshattery.

Is there a wheelie bin large enough? If not, why not throw Keith a bone at Bellvue?

Resist We Much on December 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM

The results: People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

???

davidk on December 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM

People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively–but those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

Makes no sense.

Two people think that they look like fat cows and write that thought down on a piece of paper.

One keeps the thought. The other throws it away in the trash.

“…those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.”

So the person who threw away the piece of paper still thinks he looks like a fat cow.

How is that a good outcome?

hepcat on December 29, 2012 at 7:23 PM

I know I like to throw this out a good bit. Why it’s still here I have no freaking idea.

Go find a ditch to die in.
lostmotherland on December 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM

Just hasn’t found that shallow grave it craves so.

Bmore on December 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM

You can literally throw your negative thoughts away

Sure you can, but it won’t do you a bit of good.

those who trashed their thoughts saw no change in how they rated their bodies.

lynncgb on December 29, 2012 at 7:44 PM

People who kept their thoughts were more likely to side in favor of their notes–so if they wrote negative notes, they rated themselves more negatively

In other words… don’t write down your negative thoughts and carry them in your pocket. Mmmkay?

lynncgb on December 29, 2012 at 7:51 PM