In reference to her decision 20 years earlier to stop publishing detailed accounts of her work on controlling elements, she wrote in 1973: Over the years I have found that it is difficult if not impossible to bring to consciousness of another person the nature of his tacit assumptions when, by some special experiences, I have been made aware of them.
Respecto da súa decisión de non continuar coa publicación dos seus achados sobre os elementos reguladores, escribiu en 1973 que: A lo largo de los años he descubierto que es difícil, si no imposible, hacer que otra persona sea consciente de sus suposiciones tácitas si, a través de mis experiencias, yo lo he sido.