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The United States of Repression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Sadia Najmi  and
Daniel M. Wegner
Sadia Najmi*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/
Daniel M. Wegner*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/
*
najmi@fas.harvard.edu
wegner@wjh.harvard.edu
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Abstract:

Erdelyi's account of thought suppression, which he equates with the Freudian construct of repression, is that it is mostly successful, and that it undermines memory for the suppressed material. Erdelyi has neglected to consider evidence from two decades of research on suppression which renders both these claims invalid. Contrary to Erdelyi's thesis, suppression often enhances the accessibility of unwanted material.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 528 - 529
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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