Half a life

I don’t think there’s a word related to the half life of emotional memory.

I’ll try and make one up by the end of the blog, or a near equivalent.

When someone has, say, a very happy or unhappy experience, it can shape their future behaviour in order to seek or avoid that same experience.

What they are doing is channeling the memory of that experience to help guide their actions.

But emotional memories fade; they have a half-life.

So, whilst people always say sociopaths don’t care about other people, another explanation is they are goldfishes when it comes to emotional memories.

Emotogoldfishiopaths?

They don’t lack empathy for others, just themselves.

And that auto-empathy failure might just be down to a crap capacity for emotional memory.

Two new words in one blog but yet not one for the half life of emotional memory …