Sad People Have Surprising Memory Advantage - Yahoo! News
Sad people are apparently better than happy people at face recognition, an upside to being down in the dumps that is yielding insights into how mood can affect the brain.
The findings, based on experiments involving college students, could help lead to better treatments for depression, psychologists say.
Past studies have found that unhappiness is often detrimental to a wide range of mental tasks, such as abstract thinking and remembering lists of words. A number of researchers had attributed this to brooding deeply and elaborately about one's surroundings, while others thought it might be due to being distracted by one's own concerns.
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