New Study Looks at How Negative Emotions Imprint Your Memory

dreamstime_1635775-01.jpgMost of us have at least one negative association we can all relate to. Something shocking that impacted our lives in a way where it’s understood “I’ll always remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard that news.” There are the ones that impacted a whole nation, September 11th, the assassination of Kennedy, or the assassination attempt of the Pope.

And then there are the more personal memories, the little traumas or sometimes huge ones that affect us suddenly and massively, imprinting in a second all their detail and intensity - finding yourself in a threatening situation, an accident, the sudden death of a loved one, being the victim of a crime, and a whole unwelcome collection of other possibilities.

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