Memory bias - Definition and Overview

Memory biases may either enhance or inhibit the recall of memory, or they may alter the content of what we report remembering.

Most research into this theory of bias has concluded that, there exists a 'mood congruent memory bias' in some emotional disorders. This particular bias has been further defined as the individual's ability to pick and select information cognitively that analogous with the patient's mood.

See also

• list of memory biases