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Your memory is malleable

2016-01-21 23:43:59.005514+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened:

The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, indicates that the participants came to internalize the stories they were told, providing rich and detailed descriptions of events that never actually took place.

Lots of good fodder to consider next time you're doing anything that involves the veracity of memories... Including serving on a jury.

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