Does normal forgetting facilitate mental health and is forgetting impaired in affective
disorders? This double-sided question may seem counterintuitive given the fact that …

A growing body of research has implicated disgust in various psychopathologies, especially
anxiety-related disorders. Although the observed role of disgust in many disorders is robust …

The quest to characterize the neural signature distinctive of different basic emotions has
recently come under renewed scrutiny. Here we investigated whether facial expressions of …

The current meta-analysis explored whether emotional memories are less susceptible to
item-method directed forgetting than neutral memories. Basic analyses revealed superior …

Cultural evolution theory proposes that information transmitted through social learning is not
transmitted indiscriminately but is instead biased by heuristics and mechanisms which …

It is widely accepted that people differ in memory performance. The ability to control one's
memory depends on multiple factors, including the emotional properties of the memorized …

Efforts to exclude past experiences from conscious awareness can lead to forgetting.
Memory suppression is central to affective disorders, but we still do not really know whether …

Memory is susceptible to voluntary disruption, for instance, through directed forgetting
manipulations, in which people are cued to intentionally “forget” information. Until now …

Abstract Information that is the most salient and important for future use is preferentially
preserved through active processing during sleep. Emotional salience is a biologically …

For Australians experiencing a suicide crisis, the emergency department (ED) is the
recommended point of contact for intervention and to ensure personal safety. However …