Wednesday, July 24, 2002

You Don't Say



Husbands forget spats, wives never do



ASSOCIATED PRESS
Husbands never remember marital spats. Wives never forget.


A new study of that ancient matrimonial given suggests a reason: Women's brains are wired both to feel and to recall emotions more keenly than the brains of men.


A team of psychologists tested groups of women and men for their ability to recall or recognize highly evocative photographs three weeks after first seeing them and found that the women's recollections were more accurate by 10 percent to 15 percentage points...