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Stockings Experiment Reveals Honest Fabrications
- Timothy DeCamp Wilson and Richard E. Nisbett tested shoppers by asking them to pick the best stocking from four identical samples.
- Participants confidently explained reasons but none admitted they picked the rightmost one, revealing honest confabulation.
We Invent Causes To Preserve Narrative
- People lack access to true causes of their thoughts and behaviors and invent plausible explanations instead.
- Confabulation is a common, often unconscious process used to preserve a coherent personal narrative.
Left Hemisphere As The Brain's Spokesperson
- Split-brain research shows the left hemisphere acts as a 'spokesperson' that constructs explanations without full information.
- When the right hemisphere perceives something the left can't access, the left invents reasons for resulting feelings or actions.