Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, ... False memories have these characteristics too.
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One answer is that suggestive interviewing or other suggestive influences helped to create false beliefs or memories,
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He was asked why he was participating. Because we have nothing to do this season, ... So I thought it would be fun.
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It's not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they'll all need to qualify when they get out,
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My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Fact, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research.
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