Studies show that emotional arousal focuses attention on the
“gist” of an experience at the expense of peripheral details. Many
researchers think that’s how memory normally works—by recording
the gist of what we encounter, not by retaining a literal record of
the experience. With the passage of time, our retrieval of gist always
trumps our recall of details. This means our heads tend to be filled
with generalized pictures of concepts or events, not with slowly
fading minutiae
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