social cognition

Human memory is not a passive archive — it’s a efficiency engine, and a set of new experiments summarized in Psychology Today argues that our brains preferentially encode pairs of people who look like they’re interacting, making these dyads easier to recall later than two people who merely...

People remember people who look like they belong together — and a set of new experiments summarized in a Psychology Today writeup argues that social interaction itself is a cue the brain uses to prioritize associative memory, making pairs of faces that appear to be interacting more likely to be...