The hippocampus is known to be recruited during the recall of experiences from our distant
past, despite evidence that memory traces in this region vanish over time. Extant theories of …

Using a framework that distinguishes autobiographical belief, recollective experience, and
confidence in memory, we review three major paradigms used to suggest false childhood …

Memory researchers long have speculated that certain tactics may lead people to recall
crimes that never occurred, and thus could potentially lead to false confessions. This is the …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Objective The implanting of rich autobiographical false memories is crucial for judicial
decision–making, and the forensic evaluation of a testimony. In order to assess this issue, a …

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

This article examines the idea that believing that events occurred in the past is a non-
memorial decision that reflects underlying processes that are distinct from recollecting …

WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British
gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking …

False memories, or memories for events that never occurred, have been documented in the
real world and in the laboratory. In the real world, false memories involving trauma and …

472 Wade et al. and beliefs are qualitatively different and so should be reported separately
(Bernstein, Scoboria, & Arnold, 2015; Clark, Nash, Fincham, & Mazzoni, 2012; Scoboria …