By Eric Rassin
Is it attainable to prohibit undesirable concepts from attention? in keeping with the literature on notion suppression, the answer's no. within the Eighties, Wegner and schools proven that the common individual can't hinder a trivial idea like that of a polar endure from coming into attention nearly seven instances in a 5 minute interval. This experimental discovering used to be through a considerable variety of replications. This e-book presents an updated evaluate of the idea suppression literature. First, similarities and modifications among suppression, repression, and dissociation are mentioned. Methodological matters are then thought of. ultimately, the medical functions of the idea suppression literature are mentioned. even if there are many stipulations to which the phenomenon of suppression may be utilized, obsession and annoying recollection are the most functions. as well as supplying an summary of the literature, this ebook hyperlinks the concept suppression paradigm to different examine fields, resembling directed forgetting and repressive coping. moreover, it discusses the phenomenon of concept suppression within the mild of broader theories reminiscent of the cognitive concept of obsession, and the ego depletion speculation. medical implications and instructions for destiny study are provided.
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To further explore the possible effect of existing dissociation on trauma reports, Rassin and Van Rootselaar (in press) conducted a study based on the following idea. If dissociation does (via fantasy proneness or otherwise) result in overreporting of past Suppression, Repression, and Dissociation 35 traumas, dissociation is also likely to have the same effect with ongoing ‘‘traumatic’’ or ambiguous events. Hence, individuals who score high on the DES can be expected to evaluate an ambiguous stimulus as more traumatic than do individuals with low DES scores.
The respondent is instructed to choose which answer would be the most typical of him/her, and which answer is the least typical. The DMI measures five broad defenses: turning-against-object (TAO), projection (PRO), principalization (PRN), turning-against-self (TAS), and reversal (REV). The latter defense style taps denial, reaction formation, and repression. ’’ Respondents who consistently choose this kind of answer options (rather than ‘‘I would like to kill them both’’) are said to engage in 22 Thought Suppression repression because they react in a neutral or even positive manner in a situation that is very likely to evoke a negative reaction.
Another cause of dissociative amnesia is dissociation. Although this may appear to be a word game, it is not. Some authors distinguish dissociative complaints from the defense mechanism of dissociation. Unlike suppression (or repression), dissociation takes place during the traumatic experience. Whereas suppression refers to the process of trying to ban existing cognitions from consciousness, dissociation aims at preventing the experience from penetrating the psyche in the first place (Huntjens, 2003; Singer, 1990).