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What Makes Someone Forgettable?

One question for Michèle Belot, an economist at Cornell University. The post What Makes Someone Forgettable? appeared first on Nautilus.

One question for Michèle Belot, a professor of economics at Cornell University and president of the European Association of Labour Economists. 

Photo courtesy of Michèle Belot

What makes someone forgettable?

think everybody’s familiar with the situation where you meet someone on the street, and feel like, “I I’ve met this person before” but can’t remember where. And it’s this “I can’t remember who that person is” that is really the key part. the most important thing is not just about remembering faces, it’s about remembering the people are. 

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