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‘False Memories’ Are More Common Than You Think

Cognitive scientists have learned that people can be 100 percent certain of their memories . . . and 100 percent wrong.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/cognitive-science-false-memories-more-common-than-you-think/


Elizabeth Loftus at TEDGlobal 2013: How reliable is your memory?

If I’ve learned anything from my decades working on these problems, it’s this: Just because somebody tells you something and they say it with lots of confidence, detail, and emotion does not mean that it really happened. We can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories; we need independent corroboration.

https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare