Ever wondered why men forget birthdays and anniversaries or the names of new neighboursIJ Men have problems remembering names and dates more than women do, according to a new Norwegian study.
“It was surprising to see that men forget more than women. This has not been documented before. It was also surprising to see that men are just as forgetful whether they are 30 or 60 years old. The results were unambiguous,” said Professor Jostein Holmen, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Holmen and his co-workers asked nine questions about how well people think they remember as a part of a large longitudinal population health study conducted in mid-Norway called HUNT3.