
Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How Did It Actually Work?
i would ask you about three true experiences, things that your mother told me really did happen to you. And then this made up experience, constructed with help from your mother, about the time when you were six years old. By the time we were done, we had succeeded in planting afalse memory in about a quarter of our subjects, a complete or partial false memory. So i, i mean, then i was incredibly excited.
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