Research by Royal Holloway found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small ‘events’, compared to more isolated people who see their world as one-long stretch. As our brains are continuously bombarded with information, it has to make sense of our experiences by dividing them into more meaningful and manageable chunks, called ‘event segmentation’.  This process is thought to be important for other psychological functions too, like memory,

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