This article discusses the reliability of children who are called as witnesses in court cases.

Through such a process, you reroute the false memory to a true one. A malleable memory can have especially dire consequences, particularly in legal settings when children are used as eyewitnesses.

You have a distinct memory of how something happened only for others who were there to correct you, saying it went down differently. And while you might think that time may have simply eroded your ...

There is a new cultural trend of adult children becoming estranged from ... It reminds me a lot of the false-memory-syndrome wave of the 1980s. My sister is estranged from one of her daughters.

Those false memories shape our identity ... helped guide Ingram's imagination and "memory" of abusing his children. God, Ingram believed, was revealing the truth to him. Eventually, Ingram ...

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False memories raise questions about how our memory ... including of satanic rituals and child sexual abuse which couldn’t have happened. In research I published with Annelies Vredeveldt in ...

False memory has become an important area of psychological ... Recovered memories occur when a victim of some sort of trauma, such as child abuse, recovers a suppressed memory often with the ...