Memory is always constructive. People create the past based on the information that
remains in memory, their general knowledge, and the social demands of the retrieval …

Pezdek and Lam [Pezdek, K. & Lam, S.(2007). What research paradigms have cognitive
psychologists used to study “False memory,” and what are the implications of these choices …

Because image-enhancing technology is readily available, people are frequently exposed to
doctored images. However, in prior research on how adults can be led to report false …

This fully revised and updated third edition of the highly acclaimed Memory in the Real
World includes recent research in all areas of everyday memory. Distinguished researchers …

What are autobiographical memories? Why do we need to remember events and
experiences from our own lives? What makes us remember certain memories better than …

Psychology and Law shows how psychological research and theory can be used in a legal
context. Written with advanced undergraduate students in mind, it focuses upon the pre-trial …

Three experiments investigated the malleability of perceived plausibility and the subjective
likelihood of occurrence of plausible and implausible events among participants who had no …

Exposure to fake news stories can result in false memories for the events portrayed, and this
effect can be enhanced if the stories conform to the reader's ideological position. We …

Understanding that suggestive practices can promote false beliefs and false memories for
childhood events is important in many settings (eg, psychotherapeutic, medical, and legal) …

Recollecting the past is often accompanied by a sense of veracity—a subjective feeling that
we are reencountering fragments of an episode as it occurred. Yet years of research suggest …