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Students may forget relevant information in order to protect their own psyches

By Guest PostJuly 5, 2017Education, Sciencegerardo ramirez, math people, motivated forgetting, psychological immune system

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…)

At the intersection of engineering and music, Yale students hit the right notes

By Guest PostJanuary 29, 2015Sciencebrand name, carbon fuels, ceid, cellular clean up, computer program, detoxification, engineering, frauen in landwirtschaft, glucose metabolism, greener days, handle, ingmar werneburg, intersection, koenig der schreckensechsen, kopf, magic of electrocatalysis, microprocessors, motivated forgetting, music, oscillatory systems, raymond moellering, schaedelstruktur, smartphone lifespan, tamar makov, wasteful byproducts, yale, yale myers forest

During the holiday season, it’s not unusual to be serenaded by Yale’s many choirs and a cappella ensembles caroling around campus. But this past December, only in Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID) could you be treated to an impromptu reggae jam played on one-of-a-kind instruments. (more…)