Most of us think of memory as a record of what actually happened to them, but an influential 2000 model proposes something stranger — that a ‘working self,’ shaped by who we are trying to be now, may quietly decide which pieces of our past we get to retrieve

There’s something I have caught myself doing, and I suspect I am not alone in it. When I look back on a particular stretch of my life, the facts do not change much. But which facts come to me, which ones rise up first and loudest, that shifts depending on where I happen to be [...] The post Most of us think of memory as a record of what actually happened to them, but an influential 2000 model proposes something stranger — that a ‘working self,’ shaped by who we are trying to be now, may quietly