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The present study was designed to clarify the differences in defensive responses of repressors and sensitizers when they verbalized feelings of anxiety. Twenty university students were divided by Byrne's Repression-Sensitization Scale to ten repressors and ten sensitizers consisted of five males and five females each, and requested to judge of “like” or “dislike” to emotional and neutral words by non-verbal and verbal responses. The results were that repressors and sensitizers presented no difference in both non-verbal and verbal responses on reaction time, and that repressors showed significantly greater GSR magnitudes in both non-verbal and verbal responses than did sensitizers. It was partially supported that repressors failed to verbalize feelings of anxiety and sensitizers verbalized freely.
