Students may forget relevant information in order to protect their own psyches
UCLA-led study suggests people often don’t recall memories that threaten the way they want to see themselves
“What’s too painful to remember/ We simply choose to forget.”
– Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were”
UCLA-led research has found that students in a college mathematics course experienced a phenomenon similar to repression, the psychological process in which people forget emotional or traumatic events to protect themselves. (more…)