You could start a gratitude journal by writing down three things you are grateful for at the end of the day, or give a happiness jar a go: write down positive memories and put them in a jar to ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, ...

Many people believe that their memories preserve events exactly as they occurred and store them in their brains. But, as Elizabeth Loftus, an influential psychologist, has demonstrated, “Memory works ...

Altering those connections can transform a negative memory into a positive one, Tonegawa and his MIT colleagues report in the August 28, 2014, issue of the journal Natureexternal link, opens in a new ...

The researchers found that the targeted reactivation of positive memories during sleep weakened participants’ ability to recall the associated negative memories. This effect was specific to the ...

In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Kluivert admitted that his spell in Italy holds mostly positive connotations in his memory. “I learned a lot at Roma,” he said. “In Rome I lived ...

Cravings are linked to memory. When we eat a food we like, we create a positive memory. When we associate a food with happy memories, it affects how good we think it tastes and how good it makes ...

Positive memories In recent research my colleague and I found that the emotional nature of a piece of music is an important factor in how it serves as a memory cue. We compared music with other ...