Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression
Recent empirical work indicates that reduced autobiographical memory specificity can act as an avoidant processing style. By truncating the memory search before specific elements of traumatic memories are accessed, one can ward off the affective impact of negative reminiscences. This avoidant proces...
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| author | Hermans, D Raes, F Iberico, C Williams, J |
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| description | Recent empirical work indicates that reduced autobiographical memory specificity can act as an avoidant processing style. By truncating the memory search before specific elements of traumatic memories are accessed, one can ward off the affective impact of negative reminiscences. This avoidant processing style can be viewed as an instance of what Erdelyi describes as the "subtractive" class of repressive processes. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f1825bff-e120-4f99-8beb-27f6fe3c548a2022-03-27T11:56:33ZReduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repressionJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f1825bff-e120-4f99-8beb-27f6fe3c548aSymplectic Elements at Oxford2006Hermans, DRaes, FIberico, CWilliams, JRecent empirical work indicates that reduced autobiographical memory specificity can act as an avoidant processing style. By truncating the memory search before specific elements of traumatic memories are accessed, one can ward off the affective impact of negative reminiscences. This avoidant processing style can be viewed as an instance of what Erdelyi describes as the "subtractive" class of repressive processes. |
| spellingShingle | Hermans, D Raes, F Iberico, C Williams, J Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression |
| title | Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression |
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