Direct Suppression as a Mechanism for Controlling Unpleasant Memories in Daily Life

Suppressing unwanted memories can impair their later recall. Recent work shows that this forgetting is achieved by at least two mechanisms supported by distinct neural systems: thought substitution and direct suppression (Benoit & Anderson, 2012). Here, we examined whether direct suppression, th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Küpper, Charlotte S., Benoit, Roland G., Dalgleish, Tim, Anderson, Michael C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113301/