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Jeff Nagelbush
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Ferris State University
Dark thoughts
Freud may have been right: people can suppress memories
Michael Anderson and Collin Green of the University of Oregon in Eugene
asked
32 people to memorise a list of 50 or so simple pairs of words, such as
"ordeal" and "roach".
The volunteers were then presented with the first word and asked either to
recall the second or banish it from their minds for four seconds. Volunteers
were asked to suppress the second word between zero and 16 times.
The researchers found that volunteers were much less able to recall words
that
had been repressed many times - even when they were offered money to
remember.
"I'm not making the claim that you're forgetting the memory," says Anderson.
"It's inhibited, not erased."
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