July 23, 2004

Memory Loss, Economic Predictions, and Girls' Self-Esteem

Gilles O. Einstein,chairman of the department of psychology and professor of psychology at Furman University, and author, with Mark A. McDaniel, of

Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging (Yale University Press, 2004):

One thing we tend to notice with increasing age is memory loss. It becomes more difficult to remember the name of a student from the previous term, whether we have already told a story to a particular class, or the details of a