Imagine you are trying to lose weight by reducing your consumption of desserts.To help you avoid the desserts that you love,you try not to think about them.According to work done on thought suppression,if you are ____,you will actually be more likely to think about the desserts.

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Research on thought suppression has shown that trying not to think about something can actually increase the frequency of those thoughts, especially when the individual is "cognitively busy" or distracted. Therefore, if the person trying to avoid desserts is busy or distracted, they may be more likely to think about them. The other choices (A, C, D) are not applicable to the situation described.

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