Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Have conducted a study that painful or emotional memories that people would most like to forget may be the toughest to forget especially if they are seen through for example a photograph as opposed to reading it. Other studies of emotional events and forgetting, had studied emotion-laden words "death". This new study did the complete opposite by asking 218 participants to react to photographs instead of text. This proved that a person makes a lot of connections between emotional events and other parts of your life, so it difficult to isolate them, as well as the fact that emotion places limits on the ability to control the contents of the mind. This may be applied to real life for example when you go through a breakup you may want to forget everything that happened but you are still emotionally attached to that person and to everything that the person represented.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815105026.htm
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