Complex sentence: This has an enormous amount of supporting research in the area of cognitive dissonance theory started in the 1950s by Leon Festinger among others.Repression is a type of motivated forgetting in which painful memories are blocked from consciousness awareness.
Split into simpler sentences: This has an enormous amount of supporting research in the area of cognitive dissonance theory started in the 1950s by Leon Festinger among others. LOLLRepression is a type of motivated forgetting in which painful memories are blocked from consciousness awareness.