emotional overindulgence

Quite di erent from the hangover we experience after one too many sips of bubbly, scientists now have a name for the feeling you feel in the pit of your stomach when revisiting a painful memory or the euphoria we feel after a happy occurrence—they call it the “emotional hangover.”

One study published in Nature Neuroscience hypothesized that emotional episodes can shape future memories. How true that statement turned out to be! When study participants were shown emotional pictures, followed by neutral pictures, they could recall the neutral pictures easily. If the neutral pictures were shown first, followed by the emotional pictures, the neutral pictures were easily forgotten. Looks like our emotions do control how we see the world.