Psychologists ask how well -- or badly -- we remember together
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 17:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Several years ago, a researcher noticed a strange sort of contagion in a couple she was close to. One partner acquired dementia -- and the other lost the nourishing pleasures of joint reminiscence. "When the other person cannot validate shared memories," she says, "they are both robbed of the past."