TY - JOUR
T1 - Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression
AU - Hermans, Dirk
AU - Raes, Filip
AU - Iberico, Carlos
AU - Williams, J. Mark G.
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33845522471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X06329111
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X06329111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33845522471
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 29
SP - 522
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 5
ER -