Abstract
Ninety-eight psychology students completed questionnaire on their experience during the past two weeks of intrusive thoughts and of their mood state. Positive and negative intrusions were similar with respect to uncontrollability. Negative intrusions were significantly less acceptable and more distressing. Although positive intrusions were typically ‘enjoyed’, a common response to intrusions was to initiate some neutralising process. Controllability of both positive and negative intrusions was significantly related to depresed mood. Within a cognitive processing framework the assumption that intrusions have natural attentional priority may have value in simplifying theoretical models of obsessional and compulsive processes.
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