The Power of Nostalgia
You might think that the more recent an event, the easier it would be to remember it. And you might think that things that happened to you a long time ago would be harder to recall, but the human brain and memory are actually more complex. There is what psychologists call a “reminiscence bump,” which is the tendency for older adults to more easily recall events from their adolescence and early adulthood. It turns out that in studies where people are asked to produce memories, a disproportionate amount tend to be from this time in [...]