The Formation of False Memories

Psychiatric Annals
0.39
Volume: 25, Issue: 12, Pages: 720 - 725
Published: Dec 1, 1995

Abstract
For most of this century, experimental psychologists have been interested in how and why memory fails. As Greene2 has aptly noted, memories do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they continually disrupt each other, through a mechanism that we call interference. Literally thousands of studies have documented how our memories can be disrupted by things that we experienced earlier (proactive interference) or things that we experienced later...

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The Formation of False Memories
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Published Date
1 Dec, 1995
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Volume
25
Issue
12
Pages
720 - 725
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