The 3-Step Protocol to Never Forget a Name or Face Again When You Meet Someone New

About this episode

This episode discusses a 3-step protocol to help listeners remember names and faces more effectively when meeting new people.

We're covering a 3-step protocol to never forget a name or face again, looking at what the research says about why face-name memory is so hard to begin with, and 3 protocols you can use the next time you meet someone new to make sure their name and face stick STUDY CITATIONS Sperling, R.A., Chua, E., Cocchiarella, A., Rand-Giovannetti, E., Poldrack, R., Schacter, D.L., & Albert, M. (2003). Putting names to faces: Successful encoding of associative memories activates the anterior hippocamp...

People in this episode

Host: Brandon White

Topics covered

• memory techniques
• face-name association
• social skills
• self-improvement
• cognitive psychology

Keywords

• memory
• names
• faces
• protocol
• social interactions
• cognitive science

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