Finding positive meaning in memories of negative events adaptively updates memory

Megan E. Speer; Sandra Ibrahim; Daniela Schiller; Mauricio R. Delgado

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26906-4

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Finding positive meaning in memories of negative events adaptively updates memory

Megan E. Speer,
Sandra Ibrahim,
Daniela Schiller,
Mauricio R. Delgado

Affiliations

Megan E. Speer: Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Sandra Ibrahim: Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Daniela Schiller: Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mauricio R. Delgado: Department of Psychology, Rutgers University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26906-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Finding positive meaning in past negative events is associated with enhanced mental health. Here the authors show this adaptively updates memory, leading to enhanced positive emotion and content at future retrieval, which remains two months later.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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