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Repression-Sensitization

Known as: Repression Sensitization 
Defense mechanisms involving approach and avoidance responses to threatening stimuli. The sensitizing process involves intellectualization in… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The need for affect: individual differences in the motivation to approach or avoid emotions.
The present research developed and tested a new individual-difference measure of the need for affect, which is the motivation to… 
1983
1983
[A study of the repression-sensitization dimension in the Thematic Apperception Test].
This study examined the differences and characteristics of defense patterns on TAT responses among repressors and sensitizers… 
1979
1979
Dimensionality of the repression sensitization scale.
Study of the internal structure of the R-S Scale failed to support a finding of unidimensionality or bipolarity, as theory… 
1978
1978
Relationship between Repression-Sensitization and Word Frequency Estimates for Pleasant and Unpleasant Words
College students (45 females and 12 males) estimated the frequency of pleasant and unpleasant English words. 28 subjects… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
On the interaction of repression-sensitization and attention in resolving cognitive dissonance.
1974
1974
Repression-sensitization and self-other discrimination in psychiatric patients.
Summary On the basis of previous research on the Repression-Sensitization Scale, it was hypothesized that sensitizers possess a… 
1971
1971
[Cognition and defense. 1. On the dimension of repression-sensitization].
1968
1968
Mode of perceptual defense as a function of repression-sensitization
1968
1968
The relationship of certain groups of defense mechanisms to a continuum of repression-sensitization.
1966
1966
Responses to Death and Sex Stimulus Materials as a Function of Repression-Sensitization
It was hypothesized that sensitizers would express more anxiety to literary material dealing with both sex and death than would… 
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