The Seven Sins Of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
An exploration of human memory that explains why remembering is both adaptive and error-prone, organizing everyday lapses into seven “sins”—transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Drawing on cognitive psychology and neuroscience as well as real-world cases like eyewitness testimony, it shows how these vulnerabilities stem from the same mechanisms that make memory flexible and efficient, and offers practical insights for reducing errors and leveraging memory’s strengths in daily life.
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- 2001
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