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thought suppression

type of motivated forgetting when an individual consciously attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought
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thought suppression

Summary

thought suppression ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (212 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • thought suppression's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2006001619[2].
  • thought suppression's subclass of is recorded as defence mechanism[3].
  • thought suppression's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[4].
  • thought suppression's Commons category is recorded as Thought suppression[5].
  • thought suppression's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gp9sv[6].
  • thought suppression's Quora topic ID is recorded as Thought-Suppression[7].
  • thought suppression's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 39306721[8].
  • thought suppression's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007547005205171[9].
  • thought suppression's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C39306721[10].
  • thought suppression's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/ef19ab01-bbec-4eaa-a7b3-f11ddab50382[11].

Why It Matters

thought suppression ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (212 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_thought-suppression_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{thought suppression}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/thought-suppression}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 18d ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
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    Part of → psychological terminology
    Subclass of → defence mechanism
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