What the research collectively documents is a set of cognitive systems doing exactly what they were built to do: keeping unresolved things active, borrowing emotional warmth when it is needed, and systematically underestimating how positively others remember us. The liking gap finding may be the most practically useful of all — the person who keeps surfacing in your thoughts almost certainly remembers the exchange more fondly than you assume.
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