id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5138 Isolation (psychology) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1514 244 48 Habitual repressors have been shown to have fewer unhappy memories than other people, but the difference rests in the secondary associations.[1] Research of repressors concluded that they had equally strong negative reactions to bad memories, however those memories did not evoke other negative feelings as much as they did for non-repressors.[8] The phrase, "architecture of less complex emotions" was created to describe this phenomenon.[1][8] Repressors have bad memories just like anyone else, but are less troubled by them because they are relatively isolated in memory.[1] The most current researchers have agreed that isolation is one of the more effective and important mechanisms of defense from harmful cognitions.[1] It is a coping mechanism that does not require delusions of reality, which makes it more plausible than some alternatives (denial, sublimation, projection, etc.). "Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5138.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5138.txt