Results: Give me a second, let me think about it!
Published on 10/06/2015
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*SciAm*: Toxic Habits: Overthinking. Call it overthinking, obsessing, brooding, or wallowing, or, call it the official term: rumination. A psychologist states a few things about rumination. Which do you agree with?
Rumination is thinking about something upsetting, in a passive way, without taking action.
14%
238 votes
Rumination makes people think they are working on a problem, without producing solutions.
14%
230 votes
All that thinking takes up time and energy individuals could spend fixing the problem.
17%
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Rumination has been found to impair problem solving skills
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Ruminating makes the problem worse.
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Rumination causes pessimism regarding the future
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Ruminators are likely to suffer with depression
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191 votes
Agree with all
15%
243 votes
Not sure
42%
691 votes
Agree with none
8%
132 votes
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Based on what you just read, would you consider yourself to be a ruminator?
Yes
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358 votes
Not sure
41%
676 votes
No
38%
627 votes
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Thinking about times when you are ruminating, have any events happened to you from the first question?(Don't think too long about this question).
Yes to all of them
6%
101 votes
Yes to a few
24%
404 votes
Not sure, haven't paid attention
30%
494 votes
No
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273 votes
N/A
23%
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If this is new to you and you believe that you ruminate will you take steps to stop doing it?
Yes
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246 votes
No
16%
263 votes
Undecided
31%
511 votes
Not Applicable
39%
641 votes
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