Emotion in stories gets our attention, and attention affects our memories

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Emotion in stories gets our attention, and attention affects our memories

If you think of a TV show episode that you watched recently, how many details of the plot could you remember? Chances are, you’d recall a few moments best—and they’d be the same attention-grabbing ones that would stand out to most other people, according to new psychology research from the University of Chicago.

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