The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

You walk into a room with an idea in mind, and then suddenly, it's empty. You no longer know what you came there to do or say. This phenomenon, well known in everyday life, has a name in cognitive ...

Couples often finish each other’s sentences. New research suggests they may also help edit each other’s memories. A study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology provides ...

“To discover yourself, you must first lose yourself.” - Unknown source Self absorption has become the new mental albatross. Our mental capacity has reached a threshold level through a hypertrophied ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of ...