Ruthanna Emrys's Journal

Heh. I was trying to show that the older you get, the more your memory is distorted by what you want to be true. The data, however, showed that older adults and younger adults distort exactly the same amount. This is in contrast to every other finding on emotion in older adult memory, but it seems solid because we ran twice as many subjects as we needed in an effort to make it go away. So the follow-up will attempt to answer the question of why we don't find a difference. That's a gamble--if it worked out well, it would mean the write-up could go to a higher prestige journal. But older adult studies take a while to run, and meanwhile I'm not adding to my kinda-skimpy CV.