A new book called “Memory Lane” by Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy is reviewed here. It seeks to find the positive side of forgetting as well as remembering.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/memory-lane-review-remember-to-forget-d408c3f4
Mss. Greene and Murphy are determined that people do not jump to the conclusion that victims of crime are unreliable witnesses. The message is not to disbelieve them but to have a more nuanced understanding of what aspects of an experience people are likely to remember well and which they are not. “Many of the catastrophic consequences of memory distortion arise not because our individual memories are terrible,” they write, “but because we have unrealistic expectations about how memory works.”