死亡相关词汇回忆减少表明自动抑制死亡念头

According to terror management theory, humans automatically suppress death-related thoughts when reminded of their own mortality. We evaluated this claim of automatic death-thought-suppression using a think/no-think paradigm. If people automatically suppress death-related thoughts, recall of death-related target words should reduce compared to other word categories both after suppression-induced forgetting, but also in the baseline condition. 182 participants took part in a think/no-think paradigm with death-related words, neutral words, and a semantic category (i.e., animals) as target words.