You’re late for an important meeting, but you can’t find your car keys. You know you have to do one more thing before you leave the office, but you can’t remember what. You run into an acquaintance ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

Social learning is typically thought to be most beneficial when the environments in which individuals live change quite slowly – they can safely learn tried and tested information from one another and ...

Friedrich Nietzsche said that the happiness of individuals depends on forgetting at the right time and remembering at the right time. The same applies to the happiness of relationships. In an earlier ...

Dr. Small is the director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University and the author of the book “Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering.” This article is part of Times ...

The often-cited phrase “forgive and forget” is both common and problematic. It’s frequently used to persuade or pressure people into forgiving those who have wronged them. However, the idea that ...