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Repression has been defined as the tendency to inhibit—consciously or unconsciously—the experience and expression of negative emotions or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened.
This statement illustrates that, contrary to the expectation of the repression literature that repression is a decisive constraint on social movements, dissidents under repression have agency and can respond to repression by adopting different strategies.
Jun 12, 2021 · To the extent that individuals inhibit their emotional expressions—especially the expression of negative emotions directed at the social system—they are unlikely to participate in collective action aimed at improving the status quo, even if they disapprove of the way things are.
- Nevin Solak, Maya Tamir, Nebi Sümer, John T. Jost, Eran Halperin
- 2021
Drawing on these results, we offer three possible mechanisms by which suppression may disrupt social functioning. First, to the extent that suppression is successful, it will dissociate an individual’s internal emotional experience from the information available to that individual’s social partners.
Jul 25, 2007 · Repression has been defined as the tendency to inhibit—consciously or unconsciously—the experience and expression of negative emotions or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened.
- Bert Garssen
- bgarssen@hdi.nl
- 2007
Jan 22, 2015 · The emotion regulation strategy of expressive suppression intervenes late in the process of emotion generation and encompasses two self-control tasks: the inhibition of the experience of emotion and the inhibition of the expression of emotion.
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Nov 18, 2016 · Expressive suppression involves an attempt to inhibit or reduce the outward expression of an ongoing emotional experience (i.e., not showing the emotion that one is feeling). In general, reappraisal and suppression are inversely related to a wide range of outcomes in the domains of subjective well-being, affectivity, and social relationships.
