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“People have an amazing capacity to remember pictures. After being shown 10,000 photographs just once they can correctly recognize almost all of them a week later. This is in marked contrast to the very poor memory for isolated words.”

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Irrationality

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Stuart Sutherland
Stuart Sutherland

Stuart Sutherland was a renowned psychologist, born on March 26, 1927, and passed away on November 8, 1998. He had a profound impact on the field of cognitive psychology, particularly known for his research on memory and cognitive dissonance. more

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