It was hypothesized that repressors, during the blockade of Cuba, would estimate nuclear war as less likely, would express less anxiety, and would show more approval of the blockade than sensitizers. The results for 196 Ss showed that the greater the estimate of the likelihood of nuclear war, the greater the anxiety and the less the approval but these results were not related to the repression-sensitization dimension.
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