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93: Mandela Effect: The Science of False Memories

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Have you ever remembered something that didn’t happen? Turns out false memories are actually pretty common, in fact they’re the reason that so many people believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison...



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References:



Memory Basics
  1. https://snl.salk.edu/~eagleman/papers/EaglemanMontagueModelsofLM.pdf
  2. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/human-memory1.htm
  3. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517131928.htm



False Memories Basics & Seminal Papers
  1. https://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-false-memories-2017-12?r=US&IR=T
  2. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2776349
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7319895/
  4. https://webs.wofford.edu/steinmetzkr/Teaching/Psy150/Lecture%20PDFs/Roediger.pdf
  5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30550338/
  6. https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/journals/psycann/1995-12-25-12/%7B2060e727-5296-43bd-8580-55b09b96f074%7D/the-formation-of-false-memories#divReadThis
  7. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702617724424
  8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279598056_Tricks_of_Memory
  9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227673242_False_memories_What_the_hell_are_they_for
  10. https://www.gold.ac.uk/media/documents-by-section/departments/research-centres-and-units/research-units/anomalistic-psychology-research/2003-french-fantastic.pdf
  11. https://staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20100619082741/http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2015/Loftus%20-Lost%20in%20the%20Mall%20-%20Misrepresentations%20and%20misubders.pdf
  13. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614562862#aff-2



High Risk Demographics & Potential Consequences
  1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614534694
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6892757/
  3. https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-020-00262-1
  4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.2350090302
  5. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8624.00064
  6. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=824601



Further Reading & Interesting Papers
  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6749930/

  2. https://indiarxiv.org/gjtfk/\
  3. Incognito - David Eagleman



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