Why Old People Keep Telling You The Same Story

Science, talk to me about old people. Specifically, why are they always telling you the same story over and over? Well, for one thing, they have lousy memories. Also: “’Older adults are additionally highly confident, compared to younger adults, that they have never told people particular things when they actually had,’ study co-author Nigel Gopie, a cognitive scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, said in a statement. ‘This over-confidence presumably causes older adults to repeat information to people.’” Makes sense!