Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend
thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that …

Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional
experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional …

For over three decades, the need for closure (NFC) construct has played a pivotal role in
research programs addressing the motivational underpinnings of knowledge formation …

Most people have experienced distressing events that they would rather forget. Although
memories of such events become less intrusive with time for the majority of people, those …

This paper updates the author's earlier hypothesis that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) reflects underactivity in Gray's Behavioral Inhibition System. Five areas of …

When reminded of something we would prefer not to think about, we often try to exclude the
unwanted memory from awareness. Recent research indicates that people control unwanted …

Historically, research on forgetting has been dominated by the assumption that forgetting is
passive, reflecting decay, interference, and changes in context. This emphasis arises from …

Forgetting is often considered a fundamental cognitive failure, reflecting the undesirable and
potentially embarrassing inability to retrieve a sought-after experience or fact. For this …

Variations in people's vulnerability to stressful life events may rise from a predated neural
sensitivity as well as from differential neural modifications in response to the event. Because …

Is forgetting mostly a positive force in human life? On the surface, this seems to not be the
case, and people often associate memory loss with frustration in their everyday lives. Yet …