• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    Here’s a weird take on this, is there some evolutionary reason for this?

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      17 hours ago

      the brain typically remembers things associated with strong emotional reactions, esp. negative reactions, presumably in order to remember your mistakes and not do them again.

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        17 hours ago

        Exactly. So it’s sad that the positive things don’t feature more strongly in our memories, just like the OP meme suggests.