The Seven Sins of Memory Quotes

“Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.”
― Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

“memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.”
― Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

“emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically,”
― Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

“The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.”
― Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

“Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.”
― Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers