Ryckman Nathan A, Addis Donna Rose, Latham Andrew J, Lambert Anthony J
a Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience , School of Psychology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
b Department of Philosophy and Brain and Mind Centre , University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.
Cogn Emot. 2018 Feb;32(1):200-206. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1276049. Epub 2017 Jan 9.
Whether intentional suppression of an unpleasant or unwanted memory reduces the ability to recall that memory subsequently is a contested issue in contemporary memory research. Building on findings that similar processes are recruited when individuals remember the past and imagine the future, we measured the effects of thought suppression on memory for imagined future scenarios. Thought suppression reduced the ability to recall emotionally negative scenarios, but not those that were emotionally positive. This finding suggests that intentionally avoiding thoughts about emotionally negative episodes may inhibit representations of those memories, progressively reducing their availability to recall.
在当代记忆研究中，有意抑制不愉快或 unwanted 记忆是否会降低随后回忆该记忆的能力是一个有争议的问题。基于个体回忆过去和想象未来时会调用相似过程这一发现，我们测量了思维抑制对想象未来情景记忆的影响。思维抑制降低了回忆情绪消极情景的能力，但对情绪积极的情景没有影响。这一发现表明，有意回避对情绪消极事件的思考可能会抑制这些记忆的表征，逐渐降低其可回忆性。
