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discontinuity hypothesis
discontinuity hypothesis The discontinuity hypothesis is the idea that people with a repressive coping style are not initially insensitive to threat: they show early responsiveness to threatening information, but this does not lead to stronger later memory for it.
The discontinuity hypothesis is the idea that people with a repressive coping style are not initially insensitive to threat: they show early responsiveness to threatening information, but this does not lead to stronger later memory for it. In this view, their processing of threat changes across time, with later memory for threatening material becoming relatively weak.