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Repressiveness: Cause or result of cancer?

1993-04-01

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Abstract Repression is commonly assumed to be a major characteristic of the cancer‐prone personality. Main supporting evidence includes studies showing that cancer patients are low in emotional expression and that repressives have shorter survival. The evidence did not seem compelling, mainly because of contrary findings, overlooking the age factor and the assessment instruments. Thus, we examined whether repressi...

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Literature Corpus work: ce2bdc0d-61d1-53d2-8677-ac06dabdf171
DOI: 10.1002/pon.2960020107

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