Still, the general notion that interference is mainly due to cue overload at the time of retrieval lived on, despite the fact that multiple efforts to demonstrate that cue-overload effects apply to everyday forgetting (not just laboratory forgetting) generally suggested just the opposite (Underwood & Ekstrand, 1967). In fact, the only reason to believe that cue-overload effects play any role at all in everyday forgetting is that almost everyone can point to a few examples from their own lives where it surely does. But the mere fact that cue-overload effects sometimes play a role does not mean that the role is a substantial one. Summarizing the state of the art late in his career, Underwood (1983) said: ‘‘A relatively few years ago it seemed that a fairly comprehensive theoretical account of forgetting was close at hand,
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