Perceptual aspects of repression.

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To test the hypothesis that repression and perception are intimately related and that effects of repression could be observed in perception, sentences describing sexual and aggressive attitudes toward parents were presented under various conditions of illumination and compared in "perceptibility" with neutral control sentences under the same conditions. Repressible sentences were more difficult to see than the neutral sentences and they were more frequently distorted. Women repressed aggressive material, while men repressed sexual material. The results bear out the major hypothesis and fulfill psychoanalytic predictions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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