Why most people remember bad memories better than good memories

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Why most people remember bad memories better than good memories

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Answer 1

This is somewhat simplified but largely true: We remember emotionally powerful experiences in our emotional memory center, i.e., the Amygdala, and factual memory in our general memory center, the Hippocampus. The Amygdala is a much stronger memory retainer than the Hippocampus.