Unruly Memory – with Memory Experts: Vin Walsh, Julia Shaw and Jennifer Wild
Ri Science Podcast
How to Train Yourself to Think in a Specific, Specific, and Practical Way
We train people to look at how the trigger that brought the memory to mind is very different to the past event. And then we bring out horrific real life footage of fatal car crashes. We had our through groups of people watch them, and then they went off and they went home. They practiced their technique of what to do when unwanted memory came to mind. If they'd been trained to think in a concrete, specific, a practical kind of way, they were much less likely to develop trauma memories or post-traumatic stress.
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