Fig. 2.

Effects of suppressing recurrent simulations of feared future episodes. (A) Participants were impaired at recalling features of their typical imaginations, as revealed by a worse recall rate for key detail words. (B) This impairment extrapolated to a lesser episodic specificity of subsequent free simulations, as indicated by a reduced proportion of internal (i.e., episodic) details included in the imaginations of the previously suppressed episodes. (C) Suppressing feared future events also led to a reduction in apprehensiveness. Error bars indicate the SE. We obtained no interaction with study.