title: Selective memory
text: # Selective memory
  
  Selective memory can mean any of the following:
  
  * Selective omission, the tendency to taboo some elements of a collective memory
  * Confirmation bias, the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
  * Lacunar amnesia, the loss of memory about one specific event.
  * Selective amnesia, the loss of memory about certain things.
  