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Moonwalking with Einstein: the art and science of remembering everything.

... self-experiment because he wanted to understand how human memory works (and because modern psychology wasn’t invented yet). In the ... with Einstein is many books in one: It is not only the autobiographical report of Foer’s experiences during his year of memory ... / more

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

... in control conditions reflect on other, non-nostalgic autobiographical experiences or listen to music that they have not identified ... of the past: Nostalgia as a meaning-making resource. Memory , 20, 452-460. Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Gaertner, L., ... / more

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 ... and frequency of nonbelieved memories in everyday autobiographical memory , Scoboria and Talarico (2013) used an indirect cueing ... G. (2012). Creating non-believed memories for recent autobiographical events. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e32998. Copyright 2012 by Andrew ... / 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 ... Harris, C. B., Sutton, J., & Barnier, A. J. (2010). Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting, and situated forgetting. In ... / 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 ... manufactured by the experimenters) is mixed with the true autobiographical narratives. Experimenters suggest to participants that false ... / 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 ... S. D., & Castiello, U. (2008). How to accurately detect autobiographical events. Psychological Science, 19, 772–780. ... / more

Are victim or eyewitness statements credible? Several ways to check them

... sentenced to between 7 and 11 years. [1] However, memory scholars argued that the children’s testimonies might have been ... characteristics of memories for perceived and imagined autobiographical events.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ,  ... / more

"We are on the same wavelength!" The creation of a shared reality and its relationship with uncertainty reduction and connection with others

... aspect of this stage is how close others tend to remember autobiographical events together by recounting daily episodes from their lives ... is believing”: Effects of message modification on memory and liking for the person described. Journal of Experimental Social ... / more

Does organized ritual child abuse exist?

... to reconcile with scientific knowledge about human memory . In the aforementioned online survey by Nick et al. [2], for instance, ... it is hardly compatible with scientific findings that the autobiographical reports of violence before the age of three are supposed to be ... / more

How deliberate forgetting might lead to false memories

... relationship between motivated forgetting and false memory formation, revealing its crucial impact in the legal arena.  In ... implantation method is used to induce false memories of autobiographical events. In this procedure, experimenters attempt to implant an ... / more