Abstract
This study examines the effects of thought suppression on sequence memory. Participants watched a film and were then randomly assigned to thought-suppression, arithmetic, and no-instruction groups. After ten minutes, memory for the film was tested. The results from sequence memory tasks indicated that while performance in the thought-suppression group was lower than the two other groups for a scene ordering task, there were no significant performance differences among the three groups in a free recall task. In order to resolve the discrepancy in these results, future research is needed to investigate whether thought-suppression influences sequence memory for a film.
