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Denial (Psychology)

Known as: Denial, Psychological Denial, Denials (Psychology) 
A psychological defense mechanism that allows a person to avoid the reality of the situation by refusing to acknowledge it.
National Institutes of Health

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Anosognosia

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Defense Mechanisms

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Beyond Terror and Denial: The Positive Psychology of Death Acceptance
Death remains the biggest threat as well as the greatest challenge to humanity. It is the single universal event that affects all… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Acceptance and denial: implications for people adapting to chronic illness: literature review.
AIM This paper reports an exploration of the terms acceptance and denial by exploring the literature, with the aim of… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Laying the Terrain 1. Reframing Violence 2. Mapping Race in the Media Part 2… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
On the psychology of confessions: does innocence put innocents at risk?
The Central Park jogger case and other recent exonerations highlight the problem of wrongful convictions, 15% to 25% of which… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
“I didn’t do it, but if I did I had a good reason”: Minimization, Denial, and Attributions of Blame Among Male and Female Domestic Violence Offenders
Women are increasingly being arrested and prosecuted for assaulting an intimate partner. Whereas extensive research has been… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Murderers' and sexual offenders' experiences of police interviews and their inclination to admit or deny crimes.
This research concerns murderers' and sexual offenders' experiences of Swedish police interviews and their attitudes towards… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
“I'm Innocent!”: Effects of Training on Judgments of Truth and Deception in the Interrogation Room
The present research examined the extent to which people can distinguish true and false denials made in a criminal interrogation… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Inside the Interrogation Room
This article takes the reader inside the interrogation room in order to analyze the characteristics, context and outcome of… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Young children's long-term retention of a pediatric examination.
Children at ages 3, 5 and 7 (N = 187) provided reports of their physical examinations immediately following the checkup and after… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
The role of denial in recovery from coronary heart disease.
&NA; This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between denial of illness and the course of recovery in patients with… 
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