Sentences with phrase «expectations shape their memories»

Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people's expectations shape their memories.

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Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

One of the problems is that when works like Heilmanns receive praise for their wit and ingenuity, it downgrades the expectations and ambitions of other abstract artists; so that now, any number of painters think that slapping a few lines and shapes around on a canvas, in a manner that vaguely represents something or other — place, memory, feeling, whatever — constitutes an abstract painting, in which it is the very ambiguity of the work which constituting the «abstract» bit.