Psychology in Action

Tag: Jenna Cummings

  • Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

    Outreach Event: Thought Suppression vs. Mindfulness!

     Irene Tung led the yellow jeep activity based on Wegner’s classic white bear psychology study! Infinity, pizza, spiders, shoes, pizza, iPhones, sleep, pizza, code names, iPads, games, pizza… When we asked elementary students to think about anything these were the responses. However, when we asked elementary students to think about anything but a yellow jeep, the…

  • Outreach Event: Mindfulness Meditation!

    Jenna introduced the idea of stress management to the youth – and they were ready to hear more! If you were asked to do nothing for a minute, could you do it? What about being asked to smell a Hershey’s chocolate kiss but wait to eat it? Well, after this quarter’s Psychology in Action’s Outreach Program event children and…