If you find yourself remembering the emotional plot of events and totally blanking on concrete details, you are processing through the story filter. The practical side: When you want to remember ...

The often-cited phrase “forgive and forget” is both common and problematic. It’s frequently used to persuade or pressure people into forgiving those who have wronged them. However, the idea that ...

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

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 ...

Susanne Jaeggi, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, joins Lisa Dent to discuss why we forget things we were just thinking about. Professor Jaeggi says it’s harder to keep track of ...

The first love is a chapter that many people hold dear in their memory. It's not uncommon for this memory to linger, even as time goes by, sparking curiosity about its significance and why it sticks ...