Retroactive interference is when newer memories interfere with older ones. When you learn something new—say a new sunset time—it can interfere with your retrieval of the original memory of the sun setting earlier.
Eventually we will and do adapt, and the early darkness schema and memories will take over, free from interference. Dorthe Berntsen, a professor of psychology at Aarhus University in Denmark, thinks that our unsettled feelings also come from the fact that we change the time so suddenly. This is likely the case biologically too. In a study in Current Biology, chronobiologists found that our circadian clocks adjust to the subtle changes in daylight, but have a hard time adapting to the rapid changes in time when we adopt daylight saving.
Of course, is not just another year in which we set our clocks back and complain about the lack of sun. This was a very dark year before the sun set at The sun now represents the ability to be outside comfortably, engage in less risky social behaviors, or get some fresh air and exercise. Memory aside, it makes a lot of sense to be upset about its absence. Leibowitz reflected on how her original research questions of how people coped during this stretch of darkness were biased to assume that darkness was always bad.
This is not to say that a positive mindset only can transform winter time during a pandemic into a time for flourishing.
There are incredibly valid reasons to mourn the loss of sunlight. Sunrise in New York City on Tuesday was at a. It was dark when a lot of people woke up, made coffee, looked at Instagram, and walked their very good dogs down very dark streets. As we move into the fourth quarter of the year — marked by the Fall Equinox on September 22 — the sun will rise later in the day and set earlier, through Thursday, December 21, the Winter Solstice, when the days get gradually longer again.
Right now, people in the Northern Hemisphere are heading toward the Winter Solstice, when the sun directly shines on the Southern Hemisphere — the Tropic of Capricorn, to be exact.
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