Ciara Greene

A lot of our memory works in the same way in a lot of different contexts. And one of the things that's really interesting from an emotional context is that we tend to retrieve memories that are congruent with our current emotional state. So if I'm currently feeling very happy, I'm more likely to be able to remember events when I was happy.

A lot of our memory works in the same way in a lot of different contexts. And one of the things that's really interesting from an emotional context is that we tend to retrieve memories that are congruent with our current emotional state. So if I'm currently feeling very happy, I'm more likely to be able to remember events when I was happy.

If I'm feeling sad or depressed, I'm more likely to be able to retrieve memories from my life that are sad or depressing. And then what that will mean is that I'll have a kind of slightly skewed perspective of my life, that I'll tend to, you know, view my life as being glass half empty instead of glass half full.

If I'm feeling sad or depressed, I'm more likely to be able to retrieve memories from my life that are sad or depressing. And then what that will mean is that I'll have a kind of slightly skewed perspective of my life, that I'll tend to, you know, view my life as being glass half empty instead of glass half full.

If I'm feeling sad or depressed, I'm more likely to be able to retrieve memories from my life that are sad or depressing. And then what that will mean is that I'll have a kind of slightly skewed perspective of my life, that I'll tend to, you know, view my life as being glass half empty instead of glass half full.

Okay, so this idea that that's referred to as a schema that we have, we create these schemas, these sort of mental frameworks that we use to store lots of information in our memories. one model of depression is that depression is caused by a kind of a negative schema.

Okay, so this idea that that's referred to as a schema that we have, we create these schemas, these sort of mental frameworks that we use to store lots of information in our memories. one model of depression is that depression is caused by a kind of a negative schema.

Okay, so this idea that that's referred to as a schema that we have, we create these schemas, these sort of mental frameworks that we use to store lots of information in our memories. one model of depression is that depression is caused by a kind of a negative schema.

So essentially a way of seeing the world that tends to characterize things as very negative, both in the moment, but also in terms of how we were, the kinds of memories that we're retrieving. So somebody with depression might have more difficulty retrieving positive memories and will find that they keep drifting into thinking about the more negative side. And then

So essentially a way of seeing the world that tends to characterize things as very negative, both in the moment, but also in terms of how we were, the kinds of memories that we're retrieving. So somebody with depression might have more difficulty retrieving positive memories and will find that they keep drifting into thinking about the more negative side. And then

So essentially a way of seeing the world that tends to characterize things as very negative, both in the moment, but also in terms of how we were, the kinds of memories that we're retrieving. So somebody with depression might have more difficulty retrieving positive memories and will find that they keep drifting into thinking about the more negative side. And then

Because they'll do that, then we'll have another cognitive bias that will say, you know, OK, if I retrieve, let's say, six memories from my life and four of the memories that I retrieve are really sad ones, I must have had a really sad life.

Because they'll do that, then we'll have another cognitive bias that will say, you know, OK, if I retrieve, let's say, six memories from my life and four of the memories that I retrieve are really sad ones, I must have had a really sad life.

Because they'll do that, then we'll have another cognitive bias that will say, you know, OK, if I retrieve, let's say, six memories from my life and four of the memories that I retrieve are really sad ones, I must have had a really sad life.

And that may well be true, but it can also be influenced by the fact that that bias is leading you to retrieve those memories in the first place and then leading you to kind of over-interpret the frequency of those as being representative of your life as a whole.

And that may well be true, but it can also be influenced by the fact that that bias is leading you to retrieve those memories in the first place and then leading you to kind of over-interpret the frequency of those as being representative of your life as a whole.

And that may well be true, but it can also be influenced by the fact that that bias is leading you to retrieve those memories in the first place and then leading you to kind of over-interpret the frequency of those as being representative of your life as a whole.

Yes. So in this study, they had the participants read descriptions of a person. And the description would include both positive and negative things.

Yes. So in this study, they had the participants read descriptions of a person. And the description would include both positive and negative things.

Yes. So in this study, they had the participants read descriptions of a person. And the description would include both positive and negative things.