Why our flawed, flexible memories come with social benefits
Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world
by Gillian Murphy & Ciara Greene
Gillian Murphy is an associate professor in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork and a funded investigator at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. She is co-author of Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (2025).
Written by Gillian Murphy