Good memories outlast bad.
During those moments of retrospection we all experience, we're more likely to remember the good times than the bad.
Several studies, which included lab research, found that people's perception of past events is mostly pleasant. However, depressed people don't share this bias. "Their negative emotions negative emotion Any adverse emotion–eg, anger, envy, cynicism, sarcasm, etc. Cf Positive emotion. faded less and positive emotions faded more," says lead review author W. Richard Walker Richard Walker may refer to: - Richard Walker (angler), an English angler
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, an assistant professor of psychology at Winston-Salem State University Chartered by the state of North Carolina in 1897 as Slater Industrial and State Normal School. Renamed Winston-Salem Teachers College in 1925 and became the first African American institution in the United States to grant degrees in elementary teacher education. in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).
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It was concluded that when people share their memories with friends and family, the social interaction seems to alter the emotional experience of those memories. "In many cases, talking helps," says Walker.
(Winston-Salem State University)
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