{"id":334,"date":"2013-02-09T22:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:25:29","slug":"false-memories-of-fabricated-political-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/09\/false-memories-of-fabricated-political-events\/","title":{"rendered":"False memories of fabricated political events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2201941\">This UC Irvine\u00a0study<\/a> is fascinating &#8211; many, many people were nudged into &#8220;remembering&#8221; political events that never happened, including &#8220;memories&#8221; of their own reactions at the time. It seems that these people, taken as a group,\u00a0were also more likely to &#8220;remember&#8221; a fake\u00a0event fitting their political positions and preconceptions than one foreign\u00a0to them. This might stand as a warning to us all of how vulnerable we are whenever we rely on our memories of personal experiences, especially if these have been tainted in some way by later discussions.<\/p>\n<p>We already knew much about how perception and\u00a0memory play tricks and how ordinary, honest\u00a0people can seriously misperceive or\u00a0misremember events that they were involved in, or can be brought by simple suggestions to &#8220;remember&#8221; things that never happened at all. This particular study, however, is an especially neat and illuminating one. Don&#8217;t forget to have a look!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This UC Irvine\u00a0study is fascinating &#8211; many, many people were nudged into &#8220;remembering&#8221; political events that never happened, including &#8220;memories&#8221; of their own reactions at the time. It seems that these people, taken as a group,\u00a0were also more likely to &#8220;remember&#8221; a fake\u00a0event fitting their political positions and preconceptions than one foreign\u00a0to them. This might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,130],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-skepticism","tag-false-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}