Kira (Kira Greene)

Maybe it's an emotional element.

Maybe it has something to do with the setting.

Maybe it has something to do with the people.

Whatever it is, there is some underlying commonality among those memories for you that your brain has extracted out that gist and recognized those as being similar.

So yeah, absolutely, we do do that.

So in general, in autobiographical memory, we actually see a positivity bias so that people will tend on average to remember events in a more positive light.

Now, I think what's interesting about often happens is a very common thing that people will fall into, like what Joe said there and what a lot of people will say is they'll say, so I'll only remember the negatives or I'll only remember the positives.

But it's not really that.

It is more of like a bias.

It's more about like kind of slightly tilting the scales in one direction or another.

On the whole, for most people on average, we tend to have this sort of positivity bias that leads us to remember our lives positively and to see the world through rose-tinted glasses.

But those are averages.

OK, there are things that can affect that.

And one of them is depression.

So people are depressed.

They're much more likely to experience that sort of more of a negativity bias.

So if somebody is depressed and they have built up their kind of blueprint, their framework, their schema of the world, that schema is likely to be quite negative in tone.

and it's likely to contain a lot of negative experiences.

And then that means that people are likely to see the world through that more negative lens.

In all of these things, we talk about these, you know, very generic terms about grand averages, but there's also just a lot of individual differences in here in terms of individual people.