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Unhappy Valentine’s: Why bad memories of your ex are so hard to shake

13 February 2019

As time passes, our memories of negative emotions normally fade faster than positive ones, helping us to move on. But this isn’t the case when it comes to exes
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Love at first sight is really just lust or even false memory

27 December 2017

One in three people say they’ve felt love at first sight, but experiments suggest the phenomenon is actually just physical attraction or distorted memories

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