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Self-Control Saps Memory, Study Says
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-show-how-self-control-can-drain-your-memory-banks http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-show-how-self-contro..., which points to this.
- flashman 11y agoI wonder if you could use this principle to treat people who've just suffered a traumatic experience? Give them a task that requires inhibitory control, and perhaps they won't commit as much of the traumatic experience to memory? On the other hand, if the mechanism worked this way you'd expect the study participants to have worse recall on all faces, not just the ones with the inhibited responses.
- tubbzor 11y agoYour comment made me think of a related but different study I read related to trauma reduction soon after a traumatic experience by using a game (like Tetris). If you are interested: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/8/1201 http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/8/1201
- astrange 11y agoIsn't that kind of how EMDR works? (Actually, reading the wikipedia article it seems like accidental hypnotherapy.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...
- percept 11y agoThis could be another evolutionary survival mechanism, a "short circuit" of sorts for life-saving responses. ("No, I didn't get a good look at the tiger, I was too busy busting my ass running back to the cave.")