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Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression

Abstract:
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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10.1017/S0140525X06329111

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author
Journal:
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES More from this journal
Volume:
29
Issue:
5
Pages:
522-+
Publication date:
2006-10-01
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EISSN:
1469-1825
ISSN:
0140-525X
Pubs id:
pubs:139729
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uuid:f1825bff-e120-4f99-8beb-27f6fe3c548a
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pubs:139729
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139729
Deposit date:
2012-12-19

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