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News Release 10-110
Emotion Affects Memory's Reliability
Negative events remembered with less accuracy
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Recent research finds that emotion appears to distort both children's and adults' memories, especially when events have a negative emotional charge. Children are less susceptible to memory distortion from negative events, but as they grow older, memory distortion is more likely.
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