Repression and hypnotic amnesia.

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It was hypothesized that if the process of repression is involved in posthypnotic amnesia, then amnesia should occur more often for words related to a S's emotional conflicts (critical) than to words which are not so related (neutral). An experimental group of 26 college males and females under hypnosis learned individualized lists of 9 critical and 9 neutral words selected from a word-association test, and were then given posthypnotic amnesia for 10 of the 18 words, without instruction as to what words they would forget. A control group received similar treatment without hypnosis. In support of the hypothesis, the experimental group forgot a significantly greater number of critical over neutral words. (28 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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