@article{gailliot2013air,
  title = {Air Metabolite Preclusion Reduces Conscious Thought},
  author = {Matt Gailliot},
  year = 2013,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/ENDO/2013/276998/},
  journal = {Research in Endocrinology},
  volume = 2013 (2013),
  pages = 6,
  doi = 10.5171/2013.276998,
  abstract = {Five studies supported the hypothesis that preclusion of air metabolite availability reduces conscious thought. Participants reported having fewer thoughts while having breathed through a bag without, rather than with, a hole at its end (Study 1). Participants who held their breath for 10 seconds reported having had fewer conscious thoughts than did participants who breathed normally (Study 2). Consistent with economic theories of resource scarcity increasing value, ratings of importance for a potpourri of items increased among participants who held their breath while rating those items, relative to ratings made by participants who breathed normally (Study 3), an effect that is mediated partly by effort expenditure, as suggested by self-reports of hiccup riddance (Study 4). Self-reported hunger correlated positively with ratings of importance of thought content (Study 5), raising plausibility of metabolite resource availability as an explanatory mechanism.  },
  keywords = {consciousness, decision making, respiration.},
  note = Article ID: 276998
}