 This phenomenon is made paradoxically worse by increasing the amount of distractions a person has, although the experiments in this area can be criticized for using impersonal concurrent tasks, which may or may not properly reflect natural processes or individual differences.In order for thought suppression and its effectiveness to be studied, researchers have had to find methods of recording the processes going on in the mind.One experiment designed with this purpose was performed by Wegner, Schneider, Carter & White.