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Why shouldn't you trust your memory?

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       If you have ever been in a relationship, I guess you would have faced the “You said that”, “No I didn’t say that” kind of situation. At the end who is right and who is wrong? Both of them are right in their own memory terms. The following will give you the clarity. Seven crew members of the space shuttle Challenger were killed in the disaster on the morning of January 28 1986. Two psychologist Ulric Neisser and Nicole Harsch used this opportunity to conduct the experiment. Next day morning, they gave questionnaire to the students asking questions like where they have been when they heard the news, who were near them, who told them about the disaster and at what time they have heard about the disaster. Two and half years later, they asked the same students the same question about the disaster. When they compared two answers there was a lot of difference between the answers. In the next round, they called the students for the interview and the produced the two...

Why do Sitcoms have laughing track at the background?

  I love F.r.i.e.n.d.s. series so much and I always wanted to recommend the series to my friends but succeeded only in 2 cases. Many would start watching the first episode but have not got past 3 episodes. Do you know the common complaints I get? There is a laughing track even for awful jokes. There must be a reason for the laughing track, right? Let’s explore them. Imagine you go to a place where you have not been there before and also you don’t have any knowledge what the culture of the place is. What would you do? You just see around the people and learn from them. If majority of the people do something, then that must be the appropriate behaviour at that place. Most people won’t jump the line at an airport but more likely to do that in supermarket in a semi-urban place.  There are around 100,000 patients waiting for kidney from a donor in the US and 4,000 patients are added every month. Hence, there is a huge demand for kidney but supply side is very less. Considerin...