... or emotional, are likely to be well remembered. It has also been proven by Cohen, 1991 that accuracy and quality of our memories decline with time. Therefore as time leads to the fading of memories, this can result in a distortion of our memory for when things happened. The less that people can remember about an event, then often the older the memory is thought to ... you got married. Rubin et al. (1986), in an analysis of a number of studies found that when elderly people look back over their lives, there is a reminiscence bump. That is, people tend to recall a surprisingly high number...

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