FREUD was right about our ability to suppress memories. Michael Anderson and
Collin Green of the University of Oregon in Eugene asked 32 people to memorise a
list of word pairs. They then presented them with a word from the list and
either asked them to recall its pair, or to banish it from their minds. The
researchers found that people were much worse at recalling words they’d
repressed many times鈥攅ven when offered money to remember (Nature,
vol 410, p 366). Anderson says although word pairs don’t have the same emotional
content as many suppressed memories, the result…
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