 Recent research found that for individuals with low anxiety and high desirability traits (repressors), suppressed anxious autobiographical events initially intruded fewer times than in other groups (low, high, and high defensive anxious groups), but intruded more often after one week.This difference in coping style may account for the disparities within the literature.That said, the problem remains that the cause of the paradoxical effect may be in the thought tapping measures used (e.g.