[PDF] With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure | Semantic Scholar Skip to search formSkip to main content> Semantic Scholar's Logo Search Sign InCreate Free Account You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI:10.1037/emo0000278 Corpus ID: 27392077With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure @article{Westgate2017WithAL, title={With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure}, author={Erin C Westgate and T. Wilson and D. Gilbert}, journal={Emotion}, year={2017}, volume={17}, pages={828–839} } Erin C Westgate, T. Wilson, D. Gilbert Published 2017 Psychology, Medicine Emotion Can people enjoy thinking if they set their mind to it? Previous work suggests that many people do not enjoy the deliberate attempt to have pleasurable thoughts. We suggest that deliberately thinking for pleasure requires mental resources that people are either unwilling or unable to devote to the task. If so, then people should enjoy pleasant thoughts that occur unintentionally more than pleasant thoughts that occur intentionally. This hypothesis was confirmed in an experience sampling study… Expand View on Wolters Kluwer people.virginia.edu Save to Library Create Alert Cite Launch Research Feed Share This Paper 15 CitationsHighly Influential Citations 1 Background Citations 7 Methods Citations 1 Results Citations 2 View All Figures, Tables, and Topics from this paper table 1 figure 1 table 2 figure 2 table 3 table 4 table 5 View All 7 Figures & Tables Thinking, function Happiness Paper Mentions News Article Culture 4.4.2020 4:29 PM 6 ways to fight off boredom ... while self-isolating Erin C. Westgate More and more of us are staying home in an attempt to slow down the spreading coronavirus. 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