Research Program / Claims / blocking-4
Blocking is a near-automatic reaction accumulated over many years.
阻塞是多年累积形成的近乎自动的反应。
Concept blocking · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status supported
This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.
Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Define blocking as repeated avoidance of expression or abandonment of action, recruit approximately 1,000 people for a three-year follow-up, with 14-day experience sampling each quarter, and measure context-cue-elicited reactions and persistence under cognitive load every six months; in the second year, randomly assign approximately 300 people to context reconstruction or active control intervention. Test whether repetition predicts automatization and whether cue change can reduce responses, distinguishing habit learning from stable personality differences; must compare with models formed over weeks or months to test whether "many years" is necessary.
Suggested paper title
The Development and Context Dependence of Habitual Emotional Avoidance: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study
What it would overturn
Generic results would not overturn mainstream hypotheses but would fit the habit model that "context-dependent repeated learning can produce automatic reactions."
Candidate labs / funders
Wendy Wood; Dennis Rünger; James J. Gross/斯坦福大学心理生理学实验室
Specificity of Seth's formulation
supported applies only to the psychological explanation that "repeated avoidance can become automatic"; "multi-year accumulation" does not specify a minimum duration and does not distinguish habit, conditioning, and personality traits.
Note
If blocking is insisted to refer to an independent energy-blocking entity, that literal mechanism should be reclassified as untested; automatization cannot be measured only by recalling how many years one has suppressed.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim blocking-4, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/blocking-4