Couples share a unique form of contagious forgetting, new research suggests

Couples share a unique form of contagious forgetting, new research suggests

Couples often finish each other’s sentences. New research suggests they may also help edit each other’s memories. A study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology provides evidence that romantic partners synchronize their brain activity during storytelling. This neural alignment leads to a specific type of shared forgetting that does not occur between strangers. The research indicates that the closeness of a relationship fun…