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The social psychology of cognitive repression

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006
Erdelyi identifies cognitive and emotional motives for repression, but largely neglects social motivations. Yet social pressure to not know, and implicit needs to isolate awareness in order to protect relationships, are common motives. Social motives may even trump emotional motives; the most painful events are sometimes the most difficult to repress ...
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Chronic psychological stress impairs germinal center response by repressing miR-155

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2019
Germinal centers (GC) are vital to adaptive immunity. BCL6 and miR-155 are implicated in control of GC reaction and lymphomagenesis. FBXO11 causes BCL6 degradation through ubiquitination in B-cell lymphomas. Chronic psychological stress is known to drive immunosuppression.
Weiguo Sun, Lingxia Zhang, Lejian Lin, Wei Wang, Yanhu Ge, Yanhua Liu, Bingfen Yang, Jianghou Hou, Xiaoxing Cheng, Xiaogang Chen, Zhongyuan Wang   +10 more
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Repression and the anxiety-defensiveness factor: Psychological correlates and manifestations

Personality and Individual Differences, 1990
Abstract The study deals with the nature of repression as currently defined by low anxiety (Taylor's MAS) and high defensiveness (Marlowe-Crowne's Social Desirability Scale), and the psychological reality of the 4-group partition based on anxiety and defensiveness.
Shulamith Kreitler, Hans Kreitler
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Repressers, Sensitizers and the Politics of School Psychology

School Psychology Review, 1985
School psychology is represented by a national organization and by a specialty division within another national organization, is beset by internal differences about role definition and entry level ...
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Repressive Adaptive Style and Self-Reported Psychological Functioning in Adolescent Cancer Survivors

Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
Low levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and psychosocial distress have been reported in pediatric cancer survivors. One explanation is the relatively high prevalence of the repressive adaptive style (low distress, high restraint) in this population. We investigated the relationship between this adaptive
Sarah J, Erickson, Melissa, Gerstle, Erica Q, Montague   +2 more
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Phantom Limbs, Neglect Syndromes, Repressed Memories, and Freudian Psychology

1994
This chapter discusses two of the most fascinating syndromes in clinical medicine—phantom limbs and somatoparaphrenic delusions—and aims to bring them into the respectable arena of modern neuroscience. The syndromes illustrate certain important principles concerning the functional organization of the normal human brain.
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Critical Psychology in Relation to Political Repression and Violence

International Journal of Mental Health, 1988
For psychologists and mental health workers to devote themselves to the topic of political repression and violence is a relatively new departure. There can be fewdictators and death squads exceptedwho will not welcome this sign of their concern and commitment.
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The return of the repressed: Psychology's problematic relations with psychoanalysis, 1909-1960.

American Psychologist, 1992
When psychoanalysis first arrived in the United States, most psychologists ignored it. By the 1920s, however, psychoanalysis had so captured the public imagination that it threatened to eclipse experimental psychology entirely. This article analyzes the complex nature of this threat and the myriad ways that psychologists responded to it.
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Visible wounds of invisible repression: A perspective on the importance of investigating the biological and psychological impact of political repression.

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
Exposure to psychological trauma is a well-accepted risk factor for the development of mental and somatic diseases. However, chronic stressors not fulfilling the criteria of traumatic experience can have similarly adverse health consequences. While the harmful impact of chronic stressors is generally recognized among researchers, there is a lack of ...
Ruth Marheinecke, Bernhard Strauss, Veronika Engert   +2 more
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Social Psychological Dynamics of Repression and Resistance to Repression: Insights From the October 2019 Lebanese Uprising

Abstract Inspired by our lived experience of the October 17 Lebanese uprising in 2019, we propose a framework to advance our understanding of the social psychological dynamics of repression and counter-repression. The framework draws on the growing social psychological literature on antecedents of collective action (e.g., injustice ...
Rim Saab, Arin H Ayanian, Aya Adra, Vivienne Badaan   +3 more
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