Sleep promotes memory consolidation: the process by which newly acquired memories are
stabilised, strengthened, and integrated into long-term storage. Pioneering research in …

Recollecting painful or traumatic experiences can be deeply troubling. Sleep may offer an
opportunity to reduce such suffering. We developed a procedure to weaken older aversive …

Memory reactivation during sleep is thought to facilitate memory consolidation. Most sleep
reactivation research has examined how reactivation of specific facts, objects, and …

People often change their evaluations upon learning about their peers' evaluations, ie,
social learning. Given sleep's vital role in consolidating daytime experiences, sleep may …

When reminded of an unpleasant experience, people often try to exclude the unwanted
memory from awareness, a process known as retrieval suppression. Here we used …

People preferentially endorse positive personality traits as more self-descriptive than
negative ones, a positivity self-referential bias. Here, we investigated how to enhance …

Emotionally salient components of memory are preferentially remembered at the expense of
accompanying neutral information. This emotional memory trade-off is enhanced over time …

People tend to view themselves through rose-tinted glasses, as evidenced by preferential
recall of positive personality traits. We asked whether reactivating positive personality traits …