The suppressive power of positive thinking: Aiding suppression-induced forgetting in repressive coping
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Intact implicit and reduced explicit memory for negative self-related information in repressive coping.
Voluntary emotional memory control has recently been shown to involve prefrontal down-regulation of medial temporal lobe activity during memory retrieval. However, little is known about instances of uninstructed, naturally occurring forgetting. In the present study, we examined whether memory suppression extends to involuntary, uninstructed down-regulation of memory in individuals thought to be...
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