false memory
Children are poor witnesses. Or are they?
In a recent murder case, a 6-year-old girl claimed immediately upon arrival of the ambulance and police to have witnessed her father stabbing her mother (Brackmann, Otgaar, Sauerland, & Jelicic, 2014). Does such an account really reflect what happened and should it be used as evidence in court? In
Does organized ritual child abuse exist?
A significant number of therapists and self-defined victims report secret organizations that sexually abuse children for ideological or religious purposes and control them through targeted personality splitting. However, police investigations have so far been unable to uncover any evidence for these
How deliberate forgetting might lead to false memories
Ever wondered what happens when you try to forget something? Discover whether the effort to suppress memories can actually twist what you remember. This article explores the relationship between motivated forgetting and false memory formation, revealing its crucial impact in the legal arena.