Facts about False Memory

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   Eyewitness testimony in legal settings is highly vulnerable to false memory, as leading questions from investigators can alter or fabricate recollections of crimes.

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   Stress and emotional arousal can paradoxically increase susceptibility to false memory formation, contrary to the intuition that emotional events are remembered more accurately.

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   Implanted false memories of childhood events, including emotionally plausible but fabricated experiences, can feel subjectively real and detailed to the person who holds them.

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   The Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm is a widely used laboratory procedure for reliably inducing false memories by presenting lists of semantically related words.

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   Elizabeth Loftus's misinformation effect experiments demonstrated that exposure to misleading post-event information can alter a person's memory of an original event.

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