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Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

Human memory is susceptible to errors and distortions. This may sound cliché ... authenticity, a debate that was even characterized as the “memory wars” (Patihis, Ho, Tingen, Lilienfeld, & Loftus, 2014). It took place ... are those who previously claimed to have recovered a memory of a sexually abusive episode, but later retracted those claims (Ost, ... / more

Was that how it happened? Shaping our memory for personal experiences in conversation with others

... realizing they have done so? How does such a change in memory come about? Williams may have been the victim of normal memory processes to which we are all susceptible. To illustrate, we review ... / more

Sleepy Politics: How Sleep Deprivation can Affect Political Decision Making

... basic cognitive functions, such as attention, working memory , and reaction times (see Lim & Dinges, 2010 for a Meta-analysis ). ... the negative effect of sleep deprivation on working memory capacity (Ilkowska & Engle, 2010) could increase production blocking: ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... these question types draw primarily on recall -based memory processes. That is, the questions encourage the child to actively search and retrieve information from their memory , without any cues. Option-posing and suggestive questions, on the ... / more

Improving the Disclosure of Information in an Investigative Interview: Rapport building and the Physical Environment

... paradigm . Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 2013 Jun 1;2(2):83-8. [9] Evans JR, Meissner ... / more

Bad day? How it can seem even worse for some

... make up emotion processing bias : Attention bias, Memory bias, and Interpretation bias .  A well-replicated study ... on her face was related to his work performance. Memory bias occurs when we recall more unpleasant information or ... / more

Fake Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Costs Real Money

... of malingering. These types of tests consist of simple memory or perception tasks that are combined with a two–alternative, ... / more

Remembering what never occurred? Children’s false memories for repeated experiences

“Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ... Why don’t you think about that for a while, okay? Your memory might come back to you. [ 12 , p. 28] Also, sometimes when ... in brooms and children being flushed down toilets. False memory researchers suggested that the (repetitive) interviewing process of ... / more

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... paper examines the impact that acute stress has on memory formation and retrieval by highlighting the ways that stress can help improve memory , but also the ways in which it typically harms memory . This paper ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... boils down to the issue of whether lying affects memory . ­­­­­­­This is particularly relevant in the legal arena, where ... might suggest that Wilkormiski’s lie affected his own memory . Can the act of intentionally lying affect the memory for the ... / more