If anyone's reacting badly, remember that they may be misinterpreting you – even if you try and make it clearer by adding emoticons, says Dr Sam Roberts, senior lecturer in psychology at Chester University.
If those who do badly at remembering pairs of cards go on to develop dementia in greater numbers, then it might point the way to early tests for dementia risk.
"If you treat your people badly, they remember," he said at a conference earlier this year.
As they prepared to leave New Paltz, "I slammed my finger in the car door, badly," Ms. Silverstein remembered.
Commenting in March, Soriano said: "If you treat people badly they remember.
I want and have wanted so badly to remember her touch, remember her face in something other than a photo, a smell, a laugh, a characteristic.
Saying good-bye on Commonwealth, Updike paused to watch his "wobbly" elder colleague walking away under the elms: "I felt badly," he remembered, "because it was as though a natural resource was being wasted.
If you have treated any adult badly too, remember to apologize to them as well.
Doing so might be difficult after you were hurt so badly, but remember that the new people you meet were not responsible for your past pain and deserve an opportunity to earn your trust.
Remembering how badly that girl was teased, I relented and asked my five-year-old if he would like us to get a television.
