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Why We Remember So Many Things Wrong - The New Yorker - 1 views

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memory psychology brain EMOTIONAL-MEMORY hippocampus

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  • Two and a half years after the event, she remembered it as if it were yesterday: the TV, the terrible news, the call home. She could say with absolute certainty that that’s precisely how it happened. Except, it turns out, none of what she remembered was accurate.
  • Neisser became fascinated by the concept of flashbulb memories—the times when a shocking, emotional event seems to leave a particularly vivid imprint on the mind.
  • Nicole Harsch, handed out a questionnaire about the event to the hundred and six students in their ten o’clock psychology 101 class, “Personality Development.” Where were the students when they heard the news? Whom were they with? What were they doing? The professor and his assistant carefully filed the responses away.
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  • two and a half years later, the questionnaire was given a second time to the same students.
  • It was then that R. T. recalled, with absolute confidence, her dorm-room experience.
  • She didn’t know any details of what had happened,
  • We don’t really remember an uneventful day the way that we remember a fight or a first kiss.
  • Her hope is to understand how, exactly, emotional memories behave at all stages of the remembering process: how we encode them, how we consolidate and store them, how we retrieve them.
  • When it comes to the central details of the event, like that the Challenger exploded, they are clearer and more accurate. But when it comes to peripheral details, they are worse. And our confidence in them, while almost always strong, is often misplaced.
  • Within the brain, memories are formed and consolidated largely due to the help of a small seahorse-like structure called the hippocampus; damage the hippocampus, and you damage the ability to form lasting recollections.
  • A key element of emotional-memory formation is the direct line of communication between the amygdala and the visual cortex.
  • Phelps has combined Neisser’s experiential approach with the neuroscience of emotional memory to explore how such memories work, and why they work the way they do.
  • Memory for the emotional scenes was significantly higher, and the vividness of the recollection was significantly greater.
  • hat is, if you were shocked when you saw animals, your memory of the earlier animals was also enhanced. And, more important, the effect only emerged after six or twenty-four hours: the memory needed time to consolidate.
  • o, if memory for events is strengthened at emotional times, why does everyone forget what they were doing when the Challenger exploded?
  • The strength of the central memory seems to make us confident of all of the details when we should only be confident of a few.
  • Our misplaced confidence in recalling dramatic events is troubling when we need to rely on a memory for something important—evidence in court, for instance
  • After reviewing the evidence, the committee made several concrete suggestions to changes in current procedures, including “blinded” eyewitness identification
  • standardized instructions to witnesses, along with extensive police training in vision and memory research as it relates to eyewitness testimony, videotaped identification, expert testimony early on in trials about the issues surrounding eyewitness reliability, and early and clear jury instruction on any prior identifications
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Why the Fed's inflation strategy will fail--commentary - 0 views

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inflation economics

shared by simoneveale on 28 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • This is because the current doctrine adopted by global central bankers is that growth comes from inflation; and without inflation there can be no growth.
  • One of the new strategies deployed by central bankers to raise prices is to push interest rates into negative territory.
  • negative interest rates are mostly about keeping insolvent governments afloat by constantly reducing debt-service payments.
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  • And achieving the Fed's 2-percent inflation target is exactly the type of thing that would the cause such a surge in borrowing costs.
  • Japan has been mired in an economic morass for decades.
  • Once inflation targets are reached, they will have to begin winding down purchases of sovereign debt or risk pushing prices out of control.
  • investors will rush to front-run the offer to sell sovereign debt and equities from central banks.
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the Trump Show - US News - 0 views

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trump language perception

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  • He has a remarkable ability to hold onto the loyalty of his backers, and his rallies help explain why.
  • "He wants to make America great again,"
  • feeds the notion that the government is catering to special interests and is giving things away to placate different constituencies.
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  • There is often a moment at a Trump rally when the candidate looks for or notices a small group of protesters. He points them out, sometimes in a mocking tone. This stirs up the crowd
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  • Another easy target is the news media, and Trump likes to point out the location of the TV cameras in the back of the room and the reporters nearby as he berates the media as dishonest.
  • His well-tailored suits and bearing make him look fit and athletic.
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Our Brains Remember the Good Stuff - The New York Times - 1 views

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brains science research psychology

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  • Our Brains Remember the Good Stuff
  • The human brain is attracted to things that were once pleasing even if they no longer are
  • There was no reward, and color was irrelevant.
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Pope Francis Arrives in U.S. for First Visit - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • determined to press the world’s last superpower to do more to care for the planet and its most marginalized inhabitants.
  • the pope, who has shunned some of the perks of the papacy since his ascension in 2013
  • the first canonization on American soil, an address to Congress and not a small degree of tension over his message
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  • . Many of his themes coincide with those of Mr. Obama, but they also diverge in significant ways that could flavor the visit.
  • “The pope is a singular figure and he has really stirred the souls of people all around the world,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary.
  • Pope Francis arrived here from Cuba, where he wrapped up a four-day visit on Tuesday morning in the country’s heartland of religion and revolution,
  • “Without family, without the warmth of home, life grows empty, there is a weakening of the networks which sustain us in adversity, nurture us in daily living and motivate us to build a better future,”
  • The president’s personal welcome was a sign of respect. Presidents rarely greet foreign visitors at Andrews, instead waiting for them to make their way to the White House.
  • The White House sought to highlight the alignment between the president and the pope, while de-emphasizing areas of discord.
  • abortion opponents were hoping that Pope Francis would boost their bid to impose new limits on the procedure and cut off federal financing of Planned Parenthood.
  • Yet Pope Francis may also make points that challenge both parties, particularly if he repeats his remarks against what he sees as the excesses of globalization and capitalism.
  • Mr. Serra is seen as a hero who spread the gospel to the New World. But Native American groups condemn him for harsh treatment of the indigenous population.
  • There were some expectations that he would raise the issues of human rights and political liberty with his hosts, but Pope Francis opted instead to be cautious.
  • The pope did not speak out against the American trade embargo against Cuba, either
  • Some analysts said Pope Francis’s restrained remarks worked to the advantage of Cuba’s leaders and the Obama administration. They saw the visit as a success because it allowed all parties to keep moving toward normalized relations.
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