Quotes from Daniel L. Schacter

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.

emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically

Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.