Emotion
Emotion affects the way autobiographical memories are encoded and retrieved . Emotional memories are reactivated more, they are remembered better and have more attention devoted to them. Through remembering our past achievements and failures, autobiographical memories affect how we perceive and feel about ourselves.
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Famous quotes containing the word emotion:
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)