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28 Psychology says people who forget names almost immediately after meeting someone may not be rude, scattered, or bad with people — their brain may simply never have encoded the name before the conversation moved on

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 10:09 EDT

Psychology says people who forget names almost immediately after meeting someone may not be rude, scattered, or bad with people — their brain may simply never have encoded the name before the conversation moved on

Forgetting a name seconds after hearing it is usually an encoding failure, not a character flaw. Names are arbitrary labels with no meaning to hook onto (the Baker/baker paradox), and they arrive at the worst moment for attention (the next-in-line effect). What actually helps, and what it does not excuse.

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