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Health psychology

the theory that actively holding back thoughts and feelings about upsetting events is physiological work that harms health, while confronting them reduces it.

In health psychology, inhibition-confrontation theory refers to the theory that actively holding back thoughts and feelings about upsetting events is physiological work that harms health, while confronting them reduces it. This meaning comes from Pennebaker (1989) in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Pennebaker, J. W. (1989). Confession, Inhibition, and Disease. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (pp. 211-244). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60309-3

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