Two weeks later, volunteers took part in a memory test. In the test, they 33____ (show) a series of words related to the situations they’d read about and were asked to recall certain ones and forget 34____.
The results showed that people were less likely to remember the details of the unpleasant experiences if they had found forgiveness in their hearts. In contrast, if they hadn’t forgiven the mistake, they could always recall 35 ____ had happened, 36 _____ ______ they were told to forget it.
According to Noreen, our abilities to overcome strong emotions 37____ someone and to deliberately forget about bad memories are linked to the same mechanism in our brains. And it might be this mechanism that 38____(connect) forgiveness to forgetting.
However, healthy and wise 39___ it is, to forgive someone who has hurt you is always 40____(easy) said than done. So, Noreen hopes that one day in the near future research will “give rise to powerful therapeutic tools (治疗手段)that will enable people to ‘forgive and forget’ more effectively”