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Oct 18, 2024 · Emotional suppression seems to have a particularly strong impact on autobiographical memory—our personal life stories and experiences. This makes sense when you think about it. After all, our personal memories are often the most emotionally charged.
Nov 3, 2023 · Some research has even shown that emotional suppression can increase the risk of developing dementia and other kinds of memory loss. Researchers found in a March 2016 study published in the journal Nature Communications that emotional suppression can cause amnesia.
Dec 7, 2020 · However, limited data exists on the effects of suppressing one’s emotions on dementia/AD risk. The aim of the study is to explore if suppressing one’s emotions is associated with a risk of all-cause dementia in a population-based sample of older adults.
Jan 19, 2015 · Memory suppression refers to the ability to exclude distracting memories from conscious awareness, and this ability can be assessed with the think/no-think paradigm. Recent research with older adults has provided evidence suggesting both intact and deficient memory suppression.
- Brendan D. Murray, Michael C. Anderson, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
- 10.1037/a0038611
- 2015
- Psychol Aging. 2015 Mar; 30(1): 9-25.
Available evidence suggests enhanced spontaneous emotion regulation in healthy aging, but the effects of specific strategies and the associated age-related neural mechanisms remain unclear.
Sep 24, 2024 · However, some research has indicated that continually suppressing one’s emotions appears to be associated with an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. What are suppressed emotions? We all have distressing thoughts or feelings from time to time.
The relationship between emotion suppression and memory loss is a complex area of research. Evidence suggests that chronic emotion suppression can impair memory encoding and increase the likelihood of memory distortion.
