Yea, I’d say that’s a guy thing, to have selective memory. This is an area where women tend to be simply better than men.

I think it’s more of an individual thing. Really, there aren’t huge differences in the memory capabilities between men and women. Although women always say that men have selective memory or hearing, it’s really just something that is said. Things get processed into long term memory when they have significance to the person.
Sounds like maybe you like this girl?? wink, wink.

I think it’s mostly individual based, but i think your thoughts on the differences between men and women have good reasons behind them. Since men and women communicate, express ideas, think, speak, and emotionally react differently than each other, i can imagine that different thinks would also trigger memory responses (or unresponsivness) as well. Men and women actually use different ways and passages of their brains and nervous systems to process thoughts and ideas and the emotions that respond to them. So i imagine that women and men, if studied, would probably show some gender specific memory lapses on certain subjects, and other circumstances. but each study would also show a smaller variation between each gender group that would make up for each individual way of processing conversations, memories, etc. so i think there would be no specific answer to your question, but possible an interesting topic to study.
p.s. quite possibly some crazy college professor has devoted his life to answering this very question and has all the results on another website. It might be worth trying to look up and see if any actual studies were done.

We all tend to remember good times and forget about bad times. Selective memory involves both. You only need to burn your hand once in touching a hot stove, and people generally remember their first love. These are selective memories we all have more or less. The gender should not be a factor, but it is common stereotype to consider men givers and providers and women as takers and provocative. Selective memory is a cultural/social issue of contemporary times that change.

everyone i know remembers something more than others because it sounded familiar or made them think of something they knew or liked or they can associate it with something they already know. It’s not gender dependent, its being human

Huh?
What were we talking about?

Everyone that doesn’t have a photographic memory has selective memory. Otherwise your brain would be so overloaded with information it would no longer compute. It isn’t at all gender related except that men are perhaps more inclined to remember sexually charged things while women are more inclined to remember emotionally charged things, but that’s just a hypothesis.

I think this is more on individual thing that female have selective memory.For instance, the b-day of our son, he forgotten about it all the time but he can remember his mom’s b-day.I remember every ones b-day in my family.I think the men has this idea that they forget the most important date like b-days & anniversary just to get off from spending or dealing with it.So the selective memory can affect someone”s behavior because of a lame excuse for something which they don’t want to remember. They are relaying the remembering calendar to women mostly because of meticulous thinking that memory can be a way of finding some valid excuses for everything numeral.

It is more of a individual thing.
Nothing to do with gender, race, etc.

I think it’s more of an individual thing. I’m sure I have selective memory, some things just don’t stick while others I’ll remember even years from now.
I hope that doesn’t mean I’m manly…

not sure what selective memory is –but I’m pretty sure that I have a defective memory –