Fading-effect Bias

Summary

• Negative emotional memories fade faster than positive ones

Details

• the memory may remain, but the emotional component will fade.

References

• The Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett

Quotes

How about the fading-affect bias,27 where emotional memories for negative events fade more quickly than positive ones. The memories themselves may remain intact, but the emotional component of them can fade with time, and it seems that, in general, unpleasant emotions fade faster than nice ones.

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• Hindsight Bias
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