Lost In The Mall And Other False Memories
Since then Loftus and scores of psychologists from around the world have refined and replicated the effect in hundreds of experiments, with the rate of false memory creation usually somewhere between 30 and 50 per cent. Unlike some examples of deceptive practice, there are clear and robust ethical clearances involved in the creation of a false memory experiment. Fakery and false memories
In settings where either a therapist or a law-enforcement officer is trying to access ‘forgotten’ or so-called ‘repressed’ memories from a patient or witness, the science of false memory has indeed shown that there are considerable dangers in using suggestive techniques and misinformation (even unwittingly).
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