The Memories You Want To Forget Are The Hardest Ones To Lose

Article 2 (The Memories You Want To Forget Are The Hardest Ones To Lose)

This article is about how we want to forget something that we saw but it is really hard and it keeps coming in our memory. Keith Payne, an assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences was the person that conducted this experiment. Another important thing that Payne said is that when our memory forgets about events or stuff like phone numbers or directions, our memory updates with new information. An example of one if when i get a bad grade on a math test I never forget about it, or when someone says a negative comment towards me it is really hard to forget. The results are in “Their results contrast with previous studies of emotional events and intentional forgetting, but those studies used emotion-laden words as stimuli, like "death" and "sex." The UNC study took a new approach, asking 218 participants to react to photographs instead of text.”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815105026.htm