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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“Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
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