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Daniel M. Wegner: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Daniel M. Wegner, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• Knowing you can look something up later makes you forget it faster

  In a 2011 study, people who expected to have later access to a fact remembered it far worse than those who thought it would be erased — but they got much better at remembering wher…

  — Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu & Daniel M. Wegner, Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips

• Couples don't remember the same things — they remember who remembers what

  Psychologist Daniel Wegner noticed that long-term couples quietly split up their memory the way they split up chores: one partner becomes the household's expert on finances, the ot…

  — Daniel Wegner, Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind

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