Some things were actually simpler to do 50 years ago. It was easier to meet new people and find your significant other (in life — not on technology). It was cheaper to see a movie and to buy a house. In the past, it was easier to support your family with one income.

However, the correct form is “simpler”. When using comparatives, a good rule of thumb is to count how many syllables are in the word. For words with 1 or 2 syllables, you add “-er” to the word. For words with 3 or more syllables, the correct usage would be to add “more” in front of the word.

As adjectives the difference between simpler and simple is that simpler is (simple) less complicated or challenging while simple is uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

The 90s had just about the right amount of technology. There were enough advancements with pagers, cell phones and the internet to make life more convenient and better connect you with people without taking over your whole life.

The study shows many over-50s consider the old days to be better because people were more patient and there was a slower pace of life. Researchers found that eight in 10 people in this age group are often nostalgic for the past, and two thirds admit that they think of their early years through rose-tinted glasses.

Often, past events are recalled with rose-tinted glasses that make those past events seem so much better than anything happening in the present. One possibility is that people experience emotions from the past more strongly than emotions from the present, and so that makes the past seem more intense than the present.

Egocentric bias: recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g., remembering one’s exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as bigger than it really was.

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened.

Selective memory really exists and we can train our mind to forget embarrassing moments completely, research claims. A study found that repressing these memories for long enough can lead to us erasing them completely.

Intentionally repressing a memory for long enough can cause one to forget it. This occurs because the brain becomes active when someone purposefully works to forget something. While selective memory is generally regarded as a negative happening, there are certain instances where it can come in handy.

Selective Memory – Why Do We Remember Some Things And Not Others? It doesn’t remember all the information in the same way, hence the concept of selective memory. For this reason, we store certain memories very deep inside our mind and we remember them perfectly.

The simplest explanation: you’re just not that interested, Ranganath says. “People are better at remembering things that they’re motivated to learn. Sometimes you are motivated to learn people’s names, and other times it’s more of a passing thing, and you don’t at the time think it’s important.”